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ON PERSIAN-JRAQ FRONTIER. CASE FOR INVEST I CATION. BY CABLE—CRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received 11.30 a.m. to-day. BASRA, March 18. A commission has been sent to Amara, on the Iraq-Per.si an frontier, to investigate an attack by a Persian tribe, Pushtukus, on the Iraq tribe of Benilan. They carried off between fifteen and twenty thousand head of sheep. Sheik Gunpueh’s retainers pursued and sharply engaged the raiders, the leader of which was wounded. There were numerous casualties on both sides.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 19 March 1928, Page 9
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