SERIOUS CLASH
NORTH-WEST FRONTIER
BRITISH OFFICER KILLED
DELHI, 26th August.
The situation on tho North-West frontier, which appeared to bo improving, has become worse during the week-end.
There was a serious clash yesterday, near Domei, in the Bannu district, between Government forces and a large armed force of Hathikhel Wazirs. A mixed force of regular infantry, frontier constabulary, and police left Bannu early in the morning to prevent the meeting of hostile tribesmen. Captain F. Ashcroft, of the Frontier Force Eifles, was shot dead from behind, and fioi'ce hand-to-hand fighting resulted. Nine Indian soldiers were killed, and ten wounded, while twentysix tribesmen were killed and_ five wounded. Seventy were taken prisoner.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 50, 27 August 1930, Page 9
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111SERIOUS CLASH Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 50, 27 August 1930, Page 9
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