MAJOR STANDS TRIAL
BOMB TRAGEDY IN INDIA CAVALRYMEN KILLED (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) ( United Service) Reed. 10.35 a.m. DELHI, Tuesday. News from Peshawar states at a court-martial Major Harrison, of the Tanka Corps, commanding an ar-moured-car company, was accused of neglect prejudicial to good order and military discipline in connection with the bomb-dropping tragedy on January 23. He was acquitted on this charge, but judgment was reserved on a second charge of neglecting to take proper precautions to ensure that a squadron of the Poona Horse would avoid the bombing area.
As the result of a mistake in dropping bombs three Indian officers and eight cavalrymen of tho Poona Horse, an Indian cavalry regiment, were killed and many others wounded by Air Force planes on January 23. The planes were at flying practice over the bombing area when the pilots saw what they believed to be the white circle of the regulation landing sign, but actuallv it was the white headgear* of the cavalrymen. They dropped three bombs ln Many ei hoSe d S St were also killed or wounded.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 611, 13 March 1929, Page 9
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181MAJOR STANDS TRIAL Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 611, 13 March 1929, Page 9
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