NORTH-WEST FRONTIER
PEACEFUL CONCLUSION OF OPERATIONS EXPECTED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. CALCUTTA, August 30. (Received August 31, at 10 a.m.) A peaceful conclusion of the frontier operations is .expected to result from a visit by Sir George Cunningham, Governor of the North-west Frontier Province, to Peshawar next week, when he will meet the tribal chiefs and representatives in Jirga. FRONTIER BOMBING , DEFENDED BY VICEROY. DELHI, August 30. (Received August 31, at 11 a.m.) A crowded Assembly heard the Viceroy’s denial that the frontier bombing had in any way infringed the canons of humanity. Lord Wellingdon said that air action of this sort, had often occurred in the past twelve years without comment. On the present occasion nobody was killed, and one man was injured. The effect of air bombing lay in the economic loss inflicted by the destruction of dwellings and the disturbance to everyday life.
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Evening Star, Issue 21504, 31 August 1933, Page 9
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