THE FRONTIER WAR.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9149, 19 May 1908, Page 5

THE FRONTIER WAR.

jPress Association—Copyright. Calcutta, May 18. The Mobmands attacked the picket .at Darwagawai during a midnight storm. The attackers fought stubbornly, but lost heavily. Two native officers and seven men belonging to the British force were .killed, and 8 native officers and 33 men were wounded. Captain Rich, of the Royal Engineers, was slightly wounded in the arm while engaged in blowing up the enemy’s towers near Khapak. Twenty-seven deaths from cholera have occurred amongst the Mnnster Fusiliers, stationed on the Northwest frontier of India.