MOVE ON PESHAWAR
RESULT OF PROPAGANDA
BOMBED BY AIR FORCE
British Official Wiroless. (Received 9th August, 11 a.m.) EUGBY, Bth August. Warnings having failed to convince the Afridi tribesmen of the folly of their adventure, villages in the Bara Valley, some fifteen miles from Peshawar, were bombed on Wednesday and yesterday by units of the Eoyal Air Force. Press reports from Peshawar state that British troops to-day engaged a small raiding party. The strength of the hostile force is stated to exceed 5000. It is under the leadership of youug tribesmen acting against the advice of their elders, and was yesterday j concentrated in caves at the western end of the Khajura Plain. The movement is the result of prolonged propaganda by revolutionary agents, and has been undertaken in complete ignorance of the resistance the Afridis are certain to met in any attack on the (Outskirts of Peshawar, where British troops have occupied strategic points.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 35, 9 August 1930, Page 9
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155MOVE ON PESHAWAR Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 35, 9 August 1930, Page 9
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