INDIAN TROUBLES
MAHSUDS ATTACK BRITISH CONVOY. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. DELHI, April 26. Under cover of a dusts torm the Mahsuds in Waziristan ambushed the advanced troops of a British convoy, attacking them with rifles and bombs, and inflicted severe casualties. Reinforcements were unable to advance owing to the heavy fire. An aeroplane bombed the Mahsuds, enabling the sur- \ ivors to regain the main body of the convoy and bring in the wounded. The enemy was beaten off. The convoy is safe.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10886, 28 April 1921, Page 5
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