WAZIRISTAN.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16721, 2 January 1920, Page 7

WAZIRISTAN.

— # OBDURATE TRIBESMEN - . (By Cable—Prr»« A«*ocia tirm—Coprrirfit.) (It«utor's TclegTam».l . , DELHI. December 31. British troops entered KoCkai without opposition. Fazil Din is retiring into the interior. H 0 is still obdurate. Tho total British casualties during the whole operations were .il6. Tho Mahsuds lost a thousand in killed and wounded. fA message from Delhi on December 2f)th said:—Brigadier-General Sit eon's column to-morrow marches on Kotkai, which is said to ho tho supply depot of the Mahsud army. It is significant \» f *^" sn Khan, the most relentless Malisnd chief, controlling tho mtwfc northern Mahstids. who has rontomptlioush- kent away from .Tandala, is now at Kotkai with Fazil Din, another intractable fanatic, with a force of 500 Wana Waziris and 500 Mali suds. It is not supposed that they are desirous of tho ontrr of tho column int." Kntkai, and it will not bo surprising. therefore, if to-morrow witnesses the last stand of tho tribesmen in this region. Tho Wana Waziris were against the operations just, concluded, or it is probable thev would have put nt least 3000 fighting men into tho field.]