FIGHTING AT PESHAWAR
DARING OF AFRIDI RAIDERS TROOPS SAVE PETROL STORE RAILWAY TRACK WRECKED By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 9.15 p.m. Delhi, August 13. A gang of Afridi raiders daringly penetrated close .to the Peshawar cantonment yesterday and sniped for two hours at Dean’s Hotel, the staff headquarters, and European residences. Indian troops gallantly resisted an attempt by the raiders to rush a huge military store containing 1000 tins of petrol, and drove the Afridis back with many casualties. Aeroplanes, artillery and cavalry cooperating dispersed the Afridis from their hiding places round Peshawar, but not before the' raiders had wrecked a railway line and cut telegraph wires.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 August 1930, Page 11
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