IN INDIA

Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1930, Page 5

IN INDIA

AT PESHAWAR

FORCES UNDER SEVERE STRAIN. [United Press Association.—By Electric lelegraph.—Copy right. J DELHI, August 21. The British troops in the Peshawar district are. undergoing a severe strain, due to increasing vigilance, to which now is added a heat wave. The troops are engaged in daily reecnnaisance. and they find it most difficult to bring the enemy to action, for immediately the troops leave their quarters, smoke signals go up from roads, huts, and villages, thus indicating to the raiders the strength of the troops and the direction in which the latter are moving. The villages responsible for this declare that if they did not signal thus, the Afridis would return at night time and murder them. The Afridis sustained heavy casualties in raids. One hundred and thirty* seven bodies were discovered and many were carried back by the Afridis, who do not allow their dead to remain on the battlefield when 011 a holy war, AFRIDIS RETIRE. DELHI, August 10. With the exception of a few small parties of tribesmen who are sheltering in caves in the hills south-west of Peshawar, the raiding Afridis appear definitely to have dispersed. In the Kurram area air operations are suspended, as the Massozais have made overtures for peace, and a political agent meeting their leaders tomorrow.

INDIAN BOYCOTT. CONGRESS AMAZING TERMS. DELHI, August 22. By the end of August it is estimated that one hundred thousand cotton operatives in Bombay will be unemployed, as a result o'f the Congress organised boycoett on foreign cloth. Meanwhile the Congress boycott committee offer amazing terms for the removal of the names of European firms from the Congress black list. These firms must become seventy-five per cent. Indian in capital, and two-tnirds of the directorate must be Indians. The firms must entirely" abstain from Government anti-Congress activities and must bank and insure with Indian firms.