MOHMANDS DEFEATED.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 January 1917, Page 2

MOHMANDS DEFEATED.

On Afghanistan Border. London, Nov 16 A baltls has been fought on the frontier of India, in which a British force was engaged with 6000 tribesmen, the Wiir Office announced today. Tho tribes were defeated and withdrew with a loss of 100 dead.

The battle was near the boundary' between India and Afghanistan. Tha British took the offausive Tbo foroe attacked was make up of Mohiaandu.

Ths British employed airplane?, which had never before been used in military operators on tbe Indian frontier. 0017 one person was killed on the British side, the statement says.

Since tbe proclamation cf a boly war by tbe Sultan of Tuikey there have been many reports of upnsings in India. It bas been stated in Beilin dispatches that unrest ia India was increasing and that revolts of considerable proportions had brok;n out. Tbe.,o reports weve denied by Ilia British Government, and so far as ia known there baa been comparatively little disordo:, except along the northwestern frontier, wficr- even in peace times difeturbuncea are not infrequent.

The Mobmauda are members of a warlike tribo which lives along the Kabul river, ia noitb-weat India. They never have been brought to acknowledge the supremacy of any leaders but their own, and have been accustomed to break from the bills into the lowlands on raidieg forays. In March and in October of last year fighting was reported near the Afghanistan front r . ~.-i British on each occasion dirpertiLg hostile forces, numbering several thousand men.