A HOLY WAR.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 182, 27 April 1908, Page 7

A HOLY WAR.

THE HDLLADS AND THB MOBMANDS. GUERRILLA TACTICS. LIUTISH REINFORCEMENTS. BT TELEGRAPH —FItKSS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT, Calcutta, April 24, The Mohmauds are becoming more aggressive, but as a rule thoy aro clinging to the hills, .sniping when an opportunity occurs. ,j General Sir Jas. Willcocks, with 3200 men and eighteen guns,, holds a front covering sixteen miles from Michni to Abiizai, with a strong central position at Shabakdar. Two brigades have been ordered to concentrate on the border under General ..Willcocks, and a third has been ordered to Peshawar as a reserve. A holy war has been preachcd over tho ; whole area between the lvunar and Panjlcora rivers to Jandol. • Shells dispersed a; largo body of tribesmen | which was advancing on Gazhisadar. Sufi Mullah, with 3000 moil, has reached Gundabmulla. The British rqjulsed an attack on Adizar bridge. The Mohmands, . whilo. looting a village within the British border, were attacked, and lost eleven men. A BRITISH ATTACK. IN DEFENCE OF COMMUNICATIONS. I London, April 24.' • Reuter's Simla corespondent cables that, tho enemy threatening to cut his communications, General Willcocks attacked with two columns, capturing the native sangars. | The British casualties numbered sixty. '