INDIAN UNREST

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXX, Issue 8496, 1 August 1933, Page 3

INDIAN UNREST

INTER-TRIBAL DISTURBANCES MENACING SITUATION TROOPS CALLED OUT (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, July 30. Owing to the disturbed situation a column of 4000 troops is expected of the North-west frontier of India, to leave Peshawar to-morrow and to proced along the Gandao Valley to support the chief of the loyal Halimzais tribes against a possible further incursion into their territory by turbulent Upper Mohmands. A cavalry regiment and a section of armoured cars will stand by on the Peshawar road. The Government. meanwhile, is awaiting the surrender of the agitators, who are attempting to disturb the border peace and are bein gsheltered by the Bajaur tribe further north.

Additional measures may be necessary to enfoce compliance with the Government’s demand for the surrender of these agitators. An earlier message stated that officers attached to the North-West Frontier units stationed at Peshawar have been recalled from leave owing to the authorities’ preparations for the dispatch of a force to Bajaur. The Khan of Kar is supposed to bt sheltering three agitators suspected of stirring up trouble among the tribes in that region. The Khan declares that the suspects are in British territory.