WILY TRIBESMEN
TROOPS SUFFER HEAVILY IN AMBUSH INDIA POSITION GRAVE DELHI, Tuesday. Despite the issue of optimistic commuuiques the situation at Peshawar is uot too good. The telegraphic and railway services are disorganised and all the city and cantonment gates at Peshawar are closed. The Afridi tribesmen are deceiving Royal Air Force pilots by placing their turbans and white robes on the ground and rushing to shelter when airplanes approach to bomb them. A party of Afridis hid in an orchard on the outskirts of the city and ambushed a patrol of the 17th Poona Horse, several of whom were killed and injured. Some of the tribesmen were killed. It is reported that a party of tribesmen intend to blow up a bridge which is an important link between the frontier and the.rest of India.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1049, 13 August 1930, Page 11
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135WILY TRIBESMEN Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1049, 13 August 1930, Page 11
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