AFGHAN REBELS
FORT STILL BELEACURED
OATpUTTA, March 23
The latest news from Khcsfc in Afghanistan is that Ms,tun is still beleagured, but the fort hast withstood all rebel attacks.
As a result of a warning by the Governor of a frontier province, 2!X) Mahsud Maliks (tribal leaders) have crossed tp the frontier in haste.
They have gone to bring back the absentees avoid the. pains and penalties with which the' tribe has been threatened if its members continue to assist the, insurrectionary movement in Ivhost.
The Afghan Consul-General in Delhi, who has gone to Wazirjstan to obtain news of the situation., despatched a secret agent to cross the border toward Ha-tun, but his intentions were mistaken, and he wag held up by a cordon on the British side of the line. Thus, by accident, the Afghan authorities were provided with the best nroof that everything possible is beinodone to assist them bv checking the movements of those without credential!).
Hostile elements' across the road from Gardez to Matun are delaying f he regular troops -advancing to the relief of Matun. It seems that the '■•sing in Ivhost is of considerable size.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1933, Page 8
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191AFGHAN REBELS Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1933, Page 8
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