REVOLT IS SERIOUS
AFGHAN! ST AM RISING.
TRIBESMEN SUFFER HEAVILY.
(Received 10.55 a.in.) ' DELHI, Dec. G. Reports from the frontier indicate that the revolt is,, serious. Fighting continues' round Jalalabad town, which tlnj rebels attempted to undermine.
They were attacked by troops under an Afghan commander whose sowas captured and shot. The Hugiani tribesmen are holding up the Kabul road at GandamuTff'thus preventing the movement of Afghan reinforcements.
'Afghan aeroplanes bombed ghinwari villages round Jalalabad, causing many casulaties.
* During the fighting on December 3rd the Shinwaris had eight hundred casualties and many captured.—Australian Press Association.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 99, 8 December 1928, Page 6
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