AIR FORCE PRAISED
OPERATIONS IN WAZIRISTAN IN 1938. WARNING ALWAYS GIVEN OF PUNITIVE RAIDS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 19. A dispatch by the Commander-in-Chief in India. General Sir Robert Cassels, on the Waziristan operations in 1938. which is published as a supplement to the London Gazette, pays a tribute to the work of the Royal Air Force. The dispatch records that in accordance with the practice observed throughout the operations, whenever recourse was had to punitive air action against the hostile tribes due warning for the evacuation of women and children was given. Throughout the period reviewed in the dispatch the Fakir of Ipi remained the focus of active hostility. The casualties suffered by the Government forces during 1938 were G2 killed and 206 wounded.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 August 1939, Page 6
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126AIR FORCE PRAISED Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 August 1939, Page 6
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