IRAQ RAIDS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 March 1928, Page 2

IRAQ RAIDS

BOMBING PLANES. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON. March J 5). The Daily Express Bighdad correspondent states that British osk-ials disc red it the alarmist reports that Ihn Sand is organisug a massed attack. They point out that the tribes have long been iiecustomod to rely on raids upon peaceful Bedouin shepheids. Nevertheless, it is admitted that Dm Sand is am hi tons, and has taken vigorous exception to the erection of a number of small fortresses near desert tvclls on the Mesopotamia Ncjd frontier. The fortresses are necessary to deal with recalcitrant tribs, whose gravest raid was made on February 19th. when 2000 armed Turkish Riffs, mounted two on a camel, descended oil the tribesmen grazing at .Terishnn, cut the. throats of 26 men, and murdered the in ill o children. The Trak army of only 14,300 fighting aeroplanes, arc penetrating far into the Neid country. Ten of the planes are Victoria double engined bombers, capable of carrying enormous loads of water to outlying stations near Ur. Tn response to tlie military warning of the danger from reprisals by aeroplanes, many Bedouins are flying from the frontier to the interior.