A SUCCESSFUL EXPEDITION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9038, 3 March 1908, Page 5

A SUCCESSFUL EXPEDITION.

SURRENDER OF ZAKKA KHEL

TRIBESMEN,

Received March 2, 9.80 p.m. CALCUTTA, March 2,

Many headmen of the Tiral tribes have petitioned General Willcocks to spare the Zakka Khels, promising to punish the raiders. 'lhey deposited their rifles, worth 20,000 rupees, as security. The Zakka Khels promised to cooperate, and made a full submission. Twelve hundred marched into the British camp, carrying modern rifles and bearing themselves proudly, though showing signs of physical exhaustion. They declared that but for the mountain guns they would have ventured on to the open plain and fought the expedition man for man.

General Willcocks accepted their submission, and gave them food. The expedition then retired from Walai to Jamrad, through narrow defiles, without the Zakka Khels firing a shot.

The troops are in fine condition

The Government are delighted at the easy success of the expedition. THE TROUBLE IN MOROCCOA FIERCE FIGHT. TRIBESMEN LOSE HEAVILY. THIRTEEN FRENCH KILLED.

Received March 2, 9.22 p.m. MOROCCO, March 2

General D'Amade, on Saturday, captured Soukeldin, after repulsing a fierce and prolonged attack by a numerous body of Indrakas tribesmen, who lost heavily.

Thirteen French were killed and 36 wounded.