FRONTIER RAIDS

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 221, 14 August 1930, Page 8

FRONTIER RAIDS

3 P-M- EDITION

THE INDIAN SITUATION. REBELS BEING DRIVEN BACK. (United Press .Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received August 14, 10.55 a.m. RUGBY, Aug. 13. In the Peshawar area British and Indian troops are continuing to drive back to the hills the Afridi tribesmen who penetrated to the plains. Numerous valleys and standing crops provide adequate cover for sfnall bands who have during their wanderings cut telegraph wires and sniped the outskirts of Peshnwar. These parties are being cleaned up. While retreating to the shelter of the hills they found the British troops in unexpected strength. Hitherto the British authorities have scrupulously observed the semi-indepen-dence of the tribes involved and no aeroplanes ever flew over Tirah. Now the country has been aerially surveyed and every village which sends its men to a raid is known. These villages are now being bombed as punishment. Twenty-four hours’ notice is invariably given to each village before the ’planes arrive and the occupants go into the open fields while the machines destroy the defence towers and houses. Nsivs of this punishment has reached the Afridi raiders and Iras hastened their return to the hills. As a precautionary measure Air Force machines took English women and children away from Paracliimar, a few miles west if Peshawar.