TRIBAL RAIDERS.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20492, 10 March 1932, Page 9

TRIBAL RAIDERS.

CONFLICT ON THE FRONTIER. AEROPLANES BOMB VILLAGES. (rMTED I'RF.SS ASSOCIATION —BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COrYBIanT.) (Received March 10th, 1.5 a.m.) DELHI, March 9. Frontier tribal raiders having refused to obey warnings, scores of their villages were bombed by Air Force machines from Risalpur and Kohat. Several villages wore wrecked and seton fire. Tribesmen who were hidden in the mountains fiercely fired at the aeroplanes, whose pilots replied with ma-chine-guns. Bombing will continue until the raiders return to their mountain fortresses. FANATICAL TRIBESMEN.

OPEN REBELLION ADVOCATED. DELHI, March 8. Serious trouble is brewing in the North-West Frontier Province, where notorious firebrands in close touch with Congress are inciting the turbulent tribesmen to open rebellion against the British Government. Several thousand fanatical armed tribesmen have already entered the Mohmand territory. 12 miles from the Indian administrative border, and threaten to eover communications .with the reqiote frontier post of Chitral. British aeroplanes have been fired at, and the postponement of strong measures may result in a widespread conflagration. There have been similar hostile activities in the Peshawar district, where the disaffected tribesmen have been warned by leaflets dropped from aeroplanes that unless they immediately disperse their villages will be bombed and tho leading agitators removed.