AIR WARFARE.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 December 1919, Page 5

AIR WARFARE.

FRONTIER EXPEDITION. BOMBS ON VILLAGES Cj Telegraph.—Pres3 Assn.— Copyright. Received Dec. 3, 11.50 p.m. , London, Dec. 1.. A message from Dattakhel says the xer. calcitrant Maddkel to-day realised the inflexibility of the British terms. A reply to the twenty-fours' ultimatum was not received at eight o'clock in the morning, and within half an hour seventeen aeroplanes were flying over Ismail Khel with a full complement of bombs. The airmen unloaded four tons on the recalcitrants, descending to three hundred feet, and leaving the villages in heaps of dust. Further bombing operations against the Waziris will probably be unnecessary, though a column may march through the Waziris' country to jmprc3S the tribesmen.—Reuter Service, SNIPING IN THE HILLS, TRIBESMEN RAIDERS AT WORK. Received Dec. 4, 1,35 a.m. Delhi, Dec. 2. Sniping is reported from Siatara Camp, near Ahm&sgid. Twenty raiders attacked a Khyber caravan near Landikotal, | wounding two Indian sowars. Afridis and Orakazal gangs burned the shops of the Nariab in Kohat. Some of the raiders were killed, and others were captured.—Reuter Service. . Delhi, Dec. 2. . News from Lahore states that a troop train near Thai was derailed and attacked by raiders, presumably Afridis. Twenty of our men were killed and forty wounded. There are no further details.