FRONTIER FIGHT INDIAN MILITARY POLICE CHECKED
FRIGHTENED COOLIES A HINDRANCE TO THE SEPOYS. By Telegraph.— PreM Association.— Copyright. (Received February 26, 9 a.m.) CALCUTTA, 25th February. The check given to the military police by the Naga tribesmen was due to the Nagaa rushing fhe baggage coolies in the rear. The coolies became rJanic-^tricken, dropped their loa.ds, and clung to the sepoys, many of whom were, in coneequence, unable to fire their rifles. Reinforcements have been eettt. [A message from Delhi, published on the 15th instant, stated t— A collision has occurred between tho military police and the Naga tribesmen on the northeastern frontier. The police were enquiring into the massacre of three men., when the Nagae assailed them in dettse bush. Nine coolie transporters were killed and twenty nseyen wounded. The police repelled the tribesmen, losing four sepoye killed and five wounded.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 48, 26 February 1913, Page 7
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