AERIAL ATTACK ON FRONTIER TOWN
Received Saturday, 9.50 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 6. The north-west frontier Congress leader, Khana Fdul Ghaffar Khan, has alledged that a mass aerial bombardment has been carried out at Wazaristan, says Reuter's Peshawar correspondent. It is authoritatively stated in Delhi that the air attack was undertaken as a punishment for some sections of tribesmen after they had been warned to vacate their homes. There was no mass bombardment. Two casualties are so far reported.
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 September 1946, Page 5
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