NORTH-WEST FRONTIER
LARGE PUNITIVE FORCE CAMPAIGN OF PACIFICATION (Received December 7, 5.5 p.m.) DELHI, Dec. 0 A punitive force of 3000 men, together with armoured cars, and including four batteries of artillery and cavalry, and the Northamptonshire Regiment, will put an end to tho trouble in tho Khaisora Valley, where tribesmen recently ambushed a British column.
The campaign is expected to be long, as it will bo necessary for a road to be constructed to facilitate pacification. Fines, in the shape of rifles, will be exacted from the tribesmen.
Tribesmen ambushed a British column which had been sent to Waziristnn, a North-West Frontier Province, on November 26, in consequence of tribal disaffection. Two British officers, one British private and 20 Indian soldiers were killed and 88 soldiers, nine of them British, were wounded. The column, which was sent from Razmak, was ambushed in the Khaisora Valley. Its mission was to strengthen tho pro-Government party and to expel a firebrand agitator. No punitive measures wero intended.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22596, 8 December 1936, Page 10
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