HOSTILE TRIBES
NORTH-WEST INDIA BRITISH FORCE AMBUSHED SERIOUS CASUALTY LIST By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received April 11, fi.sl p.m.) DELHI, April 10 A communique announces that an encounter 011 the North-West frontier resulted in six British officers being killed and five wounded, and 19 other ranks being killed and 35 wounded.
Followers of the Fakir of Ipi attacked a convoy of lorries and armoured cars in a narrow gorge between Manzai and Wana. The tribesmen's rifle fire brought down a bombing aeroplane, but the occupants were not injured.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22700, 12 April 1937, Page 9
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87HOSTILE TRIBES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22700, 12 April 1937, Page 9
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