INDIAN AFFAIRS.
FRONTIER BOMBING- RAIDS. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. (Received this day at J 1.30 a.iti.) DELHI, December 2S. Sixteen machines bombed Waziristam frontier villages dropping four and a half tons of bombs. It was a complete and successful surprise. The following day three more tons were dropped. One maa-liiiio was forced to land, but succeeded in returning safely to the base. These have been followed by smaller bombing raids, eighteen machines dropping tons. In two days preceding Christmas sixteen machines made forty-four raids on .Talalkhel settlements' dropping six tons. Major Parsons (political agent at Wana) who was in a leading machine .was wounded in the army by rifle lire, from the ground hut the pilot escaped, and also the observer. Ground targets were engaged bv machine guns from pianos. Intelligence reports Indicate satisfactory results.
CRICKET IN INDIA. DELHI, December 28
Tt- is proposed to establish in India a central controlling cricket authority like Marylobonc Club in England ami Melbourne Club in Australia, to further international contests and also commence county cricket in India. There will lie a big conference at Nagpur in the middle of January.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 December 1922, Page 3
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