MENACE IN NORTH-WEST

Taranaki Daily News, 10 March 1932, Page 7

MENACE IN NORTH-WEST

FANATIC INDIANS GATHER

INCITEMENT TO REBELLION

FINAL WARNING IGNORED

BOMBING BY AEROPLANE

By Telegraph—Preen Assn.—Copyright. Delhi, March 8.

Serious trouble is developing in the North-West Frontier province, where notorious firebrands, in close touch with the Congress, are inciting turbulent tribesmen to open rebellion against the British Government.

Several thousand fanatic and armed tribesmen have already entered the Mohmand territory, 12 miles from the Indian administrative border, and threaten to sever communication with l the remote frontier post of Chitral. British aeroplanes have been fired at, and the postponement of strong measures may result in a widespread conflagration. There are similar hostile activities in the Peshawar district, where disaffected tribesmen have been warned by leaflets dropped from aeroplanes that unless they immediately disperse their villages will be bombed and the leading agitators removed. PLANES BOMBING VILLAGES. FIERCE FIRING BY TRIBESMEN. Rec. 12.30 a.m. Delhi, March 9. The frontier tribal raiders having refused to obey air warnings, scores of their villages were to-day bombed by Air Force planes from Risalpur and Kohat. Several villages were wrecked and set afire. . Tribesmen hidden in the mountains fiercely fired on aeroplanes, which replied with machine guns. The bombing will continue until the raiders return to their mountain fortresses.