TROUBLE BREWING
NORTH-WEST FRONTIER
TURBULENT TRIBESMEN. (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) Delhi, March 8. Serious trouble is brewing in the NorthWest Frontier Province where notorious firebrands, in close touch with Congress, are inciting the turbulent tribesmen to open rebellion against the British Government. Several thousand fanatic armed tribesmen have already entered the Mohmand territory, twelve miles from the Indian administrative border, and threaten to sever communications with the remote frontier post of Chitral. British aeroplanes have been fired at, and a postponement of strong measures may result in a widespread conflagration. There are similar hostile activities in the Peshawar district, where the disaffected tribesmen have been warned by leaflets dropped from aeroplanes that unless they immediately disperse their villages will be bombed ami the leading agitators removed. VILLAGES BOMBED RAIDERS IGNORE WARNINGS. (Rec. 1.5 a.m.) Delhai, March 9. Frontier tribal raiders having refused to obey air warnings, scores of their villages were bombed by the Air Force from Risalpur and Kahat. Several villages were wrecked and set of fire. Tribesmen hidden in the mountains fired fiercely at the aeroplanes, which replied with machine-guns. Bombing continues until the raiders return to their mountain fortresses.
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Southland Times, Issue 21649, 10 March 1932, Page 7
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192TROUBLE BREWING Southland Times, Issue 21649, 10 March 1932, Page 7
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