WONDERFUL TREK BY PARTY OF PATHANS
ESCAPE FROM CAPTORS AND . WALK TO INDIA: By- Telegraph—Preas.Association—Conyrinrhi ■ London, July 10. • One hundred Patlian infantry,' under, their officer, were taken prisoner in Flanders, and sent to Constantinople by the. Germans', in the hope that as Mohammedans they , would :be induced •to join the Turkish Army. • They eluded their captors and reached. .Kabul ovorland, after four months, and are, proceeding. to rejoin their regiment in India. . General Sir ,o'Moore Creagh, late Commander-in-Chief in India, interviewed ;on the incident, said that it furnished another illustration of. the German misjudgment, and also attests tho Pathan'sf loyalty, and shows how liappj' ho is in his regiment. ''The Pathans are accustomed to travel tremendous distances, arid they probably traversed via the /Mussulman territory in Persia. A convalescent told me,;that tho. refugees were'well treated in Afghanistan—evidenco of,what I was certain, namely, of the Amir's loyalty."
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2512, 13 July 1915, Page 5
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146WONDERFUL TREK BY PARTY OF PATHANS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2512, 13 July 1915, Page 5
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