RAID ON PESHAWAR.
DARING AFRIDI SNIPERS.
GALLANT INDIAN TROOPS. ROUT OF THE TRIBESMEN. SENSATIONAL INCIDENTS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received August 13. 10.35 p.m.) DELHI, August 13. A daring party of Afridis penetrated close to the Peshawar cantonment yesterday arjd sniped for two houis at Dean's Hotel, tho staff headquarters and European residences. Indian troops gallantly resisted an attempt by the raiders to rush a huge military store containing thousands of tins of petrol. They drove tho Afridis back with many casualties. Airmen, artillery and cavalry cooperated. Finally the Afridis were driven from their hiding places round Peshawar, but not before they had wrecked a railway line and cut telegraph wires.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20642, 14 August 1930, Page 11
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