FRONTIER WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 December 1919, Page 5

FRONTIER WAR.

MORE FIGHTING EXPECTED. TRIBESMEN MOBILISING, B* Telegraph.—Prew Bsceived Dec. 30, 7.45 p.m, Delhi, Dec. 29. It will bo necessary for a force to reattni in the Mahsud country to ensure the faithful canying out of the peace terms, and to enforce the surrender of rfltat Tha latter wUI be diflicult, as the f«wtical tribesmen have not before posrant, and they prise them highly, ®»e column must now presumably proceed against the Wana Wazirs, to whom terns nave not yet been dictated. The «*{pr!«nce against the Mahsuds ha« the futility of dictating terms * strong force backing up oui The majority of the Mahsud cm#* hare now arrived in Jandala, and it isbiJleved that when they meet Gen'ttal CSUmo they will sign acceptance of «Q totems. ... Sheen's column to-morrow marches on Kotkai, which is said to be tltt supply depot of the Mahsud army. It fa significant that Musa Kahn, the most relentless Mahsud chief controlling i Mt of tha northern Mahsuds, who has , contemptuously kept away from Jaodttli, is now at Kotkai with Fayildin, I Miflgher intractable fanatic, with a force of feve hundred Wana Wazirs and five hundred Mahsuds. It is rot supposed that they are de«i»W «f cheering the entry of the colttftninto Kotkai, and it will not be surprising, therefore, if to-morrow witnesses the last stand of the tribesmen in this regjtfc. The Wana Wazirs were against ' tb» opMaticns just concluded, or it is probable they would have put at least three thonsand'flghting men into the field—fSeuter Bervice.