Word: lau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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British correspondents cabled that the beings bombed were "only animals." Cows had been mangled in humane preference to mangling their tribesmen owners. Reason : some of the tribesmen were suspected of murdering recently British District Commander Captain Ferguson. Result: 34 chiefs of the Lau tribe surrendered, last week, to a small British land force. The chiefs, cowed, were then obliged to watch while British bombers completely demolished their sacred shrine, the Pyramid of Dengkur, long a place of idolatrous, witch-doctoring worship...