INDIAN TRIBESMEN PUNISHED
SUCCESSFUL OPERATIONS IN THE NORTH-WEST PROVINCES. (Rec. June 26, 6.20 p.m.) Simla, June 25. Official.—Successful operations were conducted by the Waziristan Field Force against the Mahsud tribesmen. The enemy was severely punished. Our casualties totalled eight.—Reuter. "[The Mahsud tribesmen number about SOW) lighting men of the Waziri people, tho other section, the Darwesh Khel, numbering 30,000. Generally, the two sections are referred to as Waziris, and their country, Waziristan, the northwest frontier province of India, is mountainous and inaccessible The Waziris are by nature and environment a Tace of marauders, fiorco and independent, and the inaccessibility of their country lends itself to tho cultivation of an attitude of defiance to the British flag. Numerous armed expeditions have been sent to subduo them, beginning as far back as 1852.]
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3121, 27 June 1917, Page 5
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131INDIAN TRIBESMEN PUNISHED Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3121, 27 June 1917, Page 5
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