MOHMAND TRIBESMEN
READY TO FIGHT FOR BRITAIN. OFFER MADE BY ELDERS TO VICEROY. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) PESHAWAR, November 29. Mohmand tribal elders offered 20,000 men to Britain for the prosecution of the war. The offer was made to the Viceroy of India (Lord Wavell) when, after flying to Peshawar from Lahore, he rode fourteen miles on horseback to Shadkadar, a frontier town at the base of the Mohmand hills.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 November 1943, Page 4
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74MOHMAND TRIBESMEN Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 November 1943, Page 4
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