CLASH IN INDIA
NORTH-WEST FRONTIER TROOPS FIGHT TRIBESMEN SIMLA, Aug. 27 More than 60 tribesmen were killed and 46 were wounded in an action on August 24 between disaffected clansmen and British-Tndian forces operating in the mountainous region of the North-West Frontier intersected by the Gandab Valley. The Indian Army casualties were five killed and 21 wounded Various factors resulted in the tribesmen venting their spleen on worker? engaged in repairing a road built through the Gandab Valley in 1933 for the protection of Lower Mohmands from the incursions of tribesmen from the Upper Mohmand country.. The raiders were dispersed but they reassembled 2000 strong, including a contingent from Upper Mohmand operating under tho "mad fakir of Alingar." Faced with this serious situation, troops from Peshawar and Nowshern went into action in co-operation with the Royal Air Force, which latter also attacked the bases in adjoining hostile zones. A notorious outlaw, Chimnai, was ehot at night at Sandasar by a Mohmand, who qualifies for a reward of £250. Chimnai made many depredations in tho Peshawar district and was partly responsible for the operations on tho Gandab road.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22200, 29 August 1935, Page 12
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187CLASH IN INDIA New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22200, 29 August 1935, Page 12
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