TROOPS MOBILISED
EXPEDITION MOOTED
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. DELHI, 7th August. ]fdr the second time in two mouths Peshawar is menaced by hostile tribesmen. All British and Indian troops in the district have been mobilised. Afridis, estimated to number five thousand, have been observed proceeding through passes in the direction of Khajuri Plain. Six squadrons of aeroplanes havo been dispatched to bomb the raiders. Machines, flying low, also us,ed machineguns on them, with deadly effect, and drove them to the shelter of rocks and caves. Opinion is expressed that it will be necessary to send an expedition across the border into the tribal territory in the autumn, when there will be better weather, in order to deal finally with the malcontents.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 35, 9 August 1930, Page 9
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