IN INDIA
PESHAWAR ATTACKED.
BY THE TRIBESMEN
[United Presß Association.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright].
DELHI, August 13
A gang of Afridi tribesmen daringly penetrated.close to the Peshawar can? tonment' yesterday,' and' they sniped for two hours ,at .Dean’s. Hotel, the Staffjhea'dquarteri, jOnd/atf European residences. ;
Indian troops gallantly resisted an attempt by the raiders to rush a huge militeti'y'store containing thousands of tihk‘ of petrol; driving the ‘Afridis batik s with'mkny : casualties.■ , , j‘ Then aeroplane, artillery and cavalry, .all co-operating, dispersed the. Afridis from their hiding places round Pesliawar, but not before the tribesffien had wrecked the railway line arid cut the telegraph wires.
INDIAN D'ISTURANCES. -w, . ; ,r - 4 ’ DELHI, Aug. 13.: The Government of Bombay is alleged to have received urgent telegrams. from Sinde regarding the alarming spread of the spirit of extreme lawleeness which following the floods,, is. beginnig .a-t., Sukkura and: extending outwards, and the root of- ' 'the evil in' Siride is.tlio utter inadequacy of the police forte, against .which, the .Blnde. authorities continually .protested to Bombay. Huge gangs patrol around 'Sinde taking the fullest advantage 'of the Communal disturbances,-.,,-ip'-,i
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1930, Page 5
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