INDIA’S FRONTIER SITUATION.
Increasing Vigilance
AFRIDIS* HEAVY LOSSES. United Press Association- Bv Electric Telegraph—Cony vlgh t (Received August 21, 9.17 p.m.) DELHI, August 21. Our troops in the Peshawar di-trict are undergoing severe strain, due to the increasing vigilance, to which is now added a heat wave. Troops engaged in daily reconnaisance find it most difficult to bring the enemy to action, for immediately the troops leave their quarters, smoke signals go up from the roads, huts and villages, indicating to the raiders the strength of the troops and the direction in which the latter are moving. The villagers responsible declare that if they did not signal thus, the Afridis would return at night time and murder them. The Afridis sustained heavy casualties in raids, 137 bodies being discovered. Many were carried back by the Afridis, who do not allow the dead to remairf on the battlefield when on a holy war.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18652, 22 August 1930, Page 9
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152INDIA’S FRONTIER SITUATION. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18652, 22 August 1930, Page 9
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