INDIAN FRONTIER
INTER-TRIBAL FIGHTING. (Australian and N.Z. Cable CALCUTTA, September 10. Recent inter-tribal fighting between the Sunnis and Shiahs, at Kalaya, appears to have been on a serious scale. The tribe of Orakzai Siinnia had the assistance of an Afridi Lashkar tribe numbering 20,000. The Shiahs were hopelessly out numbered, but they made a gallant fight from their towers and trenches. Their casualties were only 100, but they lost all their land, houses, women and children, which have passed into the hands of the Afridis. The Afridis' suffered terrible casualties, their dead alone numbering 500. There is a possibility of a counterattack, and the tribesmen have appealed to the British political authorities. The question, of whether such action would be advisable is now under consideration. A grave feature of the fighting is that the trouble may spread to the tribal inhabitants of the administered districts.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 September 1927, Page 11
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