DISPLAY OF FORCE.
QUEST FOR FAKIR OF I I’J . LONDON, April 24. It is reported from Simla that with a concentration of 33,000 troops, five companies of light tanks, two squadrons of Air Force ’planes, and the assumption of political‘control of AVaziristan and neighbouring tribal areas by General Sir John Coleridge. Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Command, operations against the Fakir of Ipi have begun in earnest. The first division from. Rawalpindi lias already moved two infantry brigades, which are establishing themselves at a bridgehead south of the Toehi River and occupying the advanced camp at Toclii and neighbouring strategical points. The opposition was slight. The casualties were two Sepoys killed and eight wounded. Ail air squadron bombed an assemblage of tribesmen near Toehi. A lashkar (tribal force), two or three hundred strong, which the Fakir of Ipi led in the early stages.- raided a border village, carried off Hindus, and looted and burned shoe's.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 123, 26 April 1937, Page 7
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154DISPLAY OF FORCE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 123, 26 April 1937, Page 7
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