INDIAN FRONTIER SLASH

Taranaki Daily News, 18 August 1933, Page 7

INDIAN FRONTIER SLASH

SHOTS FIRED AT PLANES

BOMBS DISPERSE TRIBESMEN

NEW ATTACK ON LOYALISTS

NO INTERNAL REACTION

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright

Calcutta, Aug. 16.

Aeroplanes reconnoitring in hostile tribal territory were fired on heavily by snipers hidden in the villages and by Upper Mohmand tribesmen marching, it is believed, to make a new attack. The airmen were not wounded and in retaliation bombs were dropped on the Mohmand tribesmen, who dispersed in panic.

A clash occurred between Mohmands and Halimazis (loyalists) and the latter were compelled to retreat in the face of superior numbers, but they inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy, who lost 18 dead and many wounded. A British Official Wireless message states that the situation on the northwest frontier of India is practically unchanged. Small parties ,of Pinwaris from Afghanistan are reported to have joined the Upper Mohmands, but there has been no fighting beyond night sniping of the camp at Dand and frequent firing at aeroplanes. There has been no internal reaction to the trans-border trouble beyond a slight of the Red Shirt movement, but • it is stated that the North-West Frontier Province villagers are receiving the Red Shirt agitators very coldly. Rain has fallen in the Ghalanai region, damaging tire roads. A British column has moved to Katsai, where hostile tribesmen are reported.