INDIAN RIOTS
FRONTIER UNREST
RAIDERS BEATEN BACK
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{Received this dUv at 11 a.m., DELHI, June 8
Troops have lately been engaged in warfare against A.ridi tribesmen on the frontier.
On Thursday last Afridis numbered seven to louricen thousand and descended on Peshawar. The situation was menacing and a column marched out to meet the raiders. Other regiments supported and cavalry brigades encircled the tribesmen, whose formation broke up rapidly. A sporadic skirmishing followed, and in one of those encounters the border regiment was ambushed in a ditch and lost three killed. A howitzer pack battery bombarded cave mouths where tribesmen iwere slidlterillg. Planes also co-operated dropping bombs and playing machine guns on tribesmen. At nightfall there were still Scattered parties in the neighbourhood All troops were then recalled and measures were taken to protect the city. Next '.day the tribesmen flod to the hills leaving many dead.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1930, Page 5
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