IRAQ FRONTIER MASSACRE
VICIOUS TRIBESMEN'S ATTACK. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received Nov. 15, 7.30 p.m. Baghdad, Nov. 14. A Central Arabian Wahabi tribe, under the leadership of a notorious Akhwan chief, attacked an Iraq frontier police post and killed five policemen and 12 labourers, including women engaged in construction work. One policeman and a labourer escaped into the desert. A police force dispatched found the mutilated bodies. An Air Force squadron punished the tribesmen.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 November 1927, Page 7
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