Word: gul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Upper Mohmands went on kidnapping and selling the women of nearby Swat, raiding the great, heavily-guarded caravan kafilas that wind under the British railway bridges through the Khyber Pass. Lately the British have busily pushed a road for the first time into Upper Mohmand land. To Badshah Gul, son of the Haji of Turangzai, toward whose mountain plain the Gandab Road seemed directly pointed, the road looked menacing. The Haji's son began to pick off the native road laborers from ambush. Last week the British Raj set out to spank the Haji...
...would rather fight than eat. In that he is more fanatical than his followers. Month ago when he issued a call for a holy war against the British from the caves where he had been hiding north of the Khyber, the Haji's son and lieutenant, Badshah Gul, warned him that war was impossible until the tribesmen had finished their Spring harvest. Crops were poor. Last week came the attack. Riddled by machine guns, shrapnel, blasted by tons of aerial bombs, the tribes men swept...