WARRING TRIBES
FIGHTING IN INDIA FURTHER TROUBLE FEARED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. CALCUTTA, September. 10. Recent intertribal fighting between the Sunnis and Shiahs at Kalaya appears to have been on a serious scale. The tribe at Orukzai Sunnia had the assistance of Afridis, numbering 20,000. The Shiahs were hopelessly; outnumbered, but made a.gallant fight from towers and trenches. Their casualties were only 100, but they lost all their land, houses, women, and children, which passed ipto the hands of the Afridis. The Afridis suffered terrible casualties, the dead alone numbering 500. There is a possibility of a counterattack, and tribesmen have appealed to the British political authorities. The question whether action would be advisable is under consideration.
A grave feature of the fighting is that the trouble may spread to the tribal inhabitants of 'administered districts.
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Evening Star, Issue 19659, 12 September 1927, Page 7
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135WARRING TRIBES Evening Star, Issue 19659, 12 September 1927, Page 7
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