INDIAN FRONTIER TROUBLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, 1 May 1937, Page 5

INDIAN FRONTIER TROUBLE

WILY FAKIR’S RUSE. SIMLA, Thursday. Knowing that aeroplanes often dropped propaganda exhorting tribesmen to keep the peace, the Fakir Ipi, who is causing trouble to Britain by fomenting unrest among the natives on the frontier, promised his followers that ‘‘the infidels’ bombs shal become paper.” Nevertheless, when a plane subsequently flew over, fear overcame faith, and the tribesmen scuttled for cover, but when the rustle of falling leaflets replaced the expected explosions, the hillmem knelt in awe about the Fakir, praising Allah ‘‘who turned bombs into paper. ’ ’ ;