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■iLASH WITH TRIBESMEN BRITISH OFFICIAL SHOT. Press Association Electric Telegranb—Copyrigh* (Received Saturdav. 9.55 a.m.) CALCUTTA, Friday. The turbulent North-west frontier again claimed the life of a British official, in the person of Mr Leslie William Ilazlett Duncan Best, Political Agent in Malakand, who was fatally shot at Agra (Malakand) during operations on Thursday against hostile tribesmen. British and Indian troops of the Nowsliera Column attacked the raiders numbering 900 with tho object of driving them back over the Swat River. Royal Air Force planes bombed and machinegunned the tribesmen’s positions after which tho troops occupied the village of Loe, in Agra, after stubborn resistance, in which Mr Best was killed and several of tho troops injured.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 13 April 1935, Page 5
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