THE FRONTIER WAR.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9139, 7 May 1908, Page 5

THE FRONTIER WAR.

Press Asssociation—Copyright. Calcutta, May 6,

The troops mobilised on the northwest frontier of India comprise B 1 battalions of infantry, 15 squadrons of cavalry, and 64 guns. The result of Monday’s fight has discredited Sufi Sahib in his efforts to rouse the Afridis. He and his followers have'returned to Afghanistan. The fight showed that the Afghans were quite unable to face artillery.

Their final retreat was precipitate. A shell killed three Mullahs who were hiding in a ravine.

May 6. The continued silence by the Kabul authorities-regarding the frontier raids is viewed with grave suspicion hy Britain.

PATHANS DO GOOD WORK,

Calcutta, May 6

During the fighting at Landikotal the 40th Pathans with great dash carried a strongly held high crest commanding a British blockhouse, also-in conjunction with the Munstsr Fusiliers, captured a series of ridges leading to Kargala village, where the severest fighting occurred.

The tribesmen lost 300 killed and as many wounded, at Landikotal and Shalekadar.