FRONT lER FIGHTS. THE TR OUBLE WITH THE AFRIDIS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 42, 19 February 1908, Page 7

FRONT lER FIGHTS. THE TR OUBLE WITH THE AFRIDIS.

BRI USH POSITION. SPHI £B,E OF OPERATIONS. By Tdegr* „p b.— Press Association.— Copyright. ( 2A LCUTTA, 18th February. Latest jal ports from the Afridi frontier stat « - that Colonel George RoosKeppell'r i column, advancing from Landi fDaotal, has functioned with the lsi j Brigade, under General Sir James Willcocks, commander of the British expedition. The column met with r ,fc> opposition. The have now occupied most of the i strongest positions in the Bazar valley. , A r i) amber of Zakha Khels attacked a comp s ny of Sikhs escorting a large convoy i 3i 3 Chinar. The Sikhs charged the tribf *.men, and carried their position on a h' /};h hill, losing two men. T .fee Zakha Khels are armed chiefly wi' &. Martini-Henry rifles, but are suffe /ing under the disability of a scarcity of ammunition. The tribesmen avoid engagements v 6 th the troops, but content them- £ c Ives with harassing pickets and con- * p< jys. The sphere of operations covers an | a rea of country twenty miles by ten, I in the western corner of the Bazar valtfety, and tho ground is of a nature that ,j renders military operations difficult. ! Other Afridi tribesmen show no desire to participate in the fighting. General Willcocks commands 2008 British and 8622 native troops. INTERRUPTED WORK. ZAKHAS DISPERSED WHILE BUILD- > ING SANGARS. (Received February 19, 8.58 a.m.) CALCUTTA, 18th February. Shells dispersed three hundred Zakha Khels who were building sangars on a : hill near Chind.