Word: peshawar
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...Government handouts. According to this the Viceroy showed his "faith and trust" in the tribal chieftains by permitting them to guard and ensure his safety on a short drive into the Khyber Pass "as far as the high ground" (from which Afghanistan may be sighted) and back to Peshawar. A very old chief under a voluminous shamianah (canopy) assured Lord Willingdon that "all the trouble hereabouts is due to the young men who are only one in 20 of us. All the rest are loyal and we pray the Government to show pity on us poor people. We pray that...
...Peshawar, capital of the newly-created Governor's Province, natives gaped with wonder at the chuffing in of the glistening white Viceregal Train, prostrated themselves as Lord & Lady Willingdon alighted with the icy-smiling mien of ruling sovereigns. The natives stuck their brown fingers into their hairy ears as heavy British field guns shook the earth with a meaningful salute...
...Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, loudly asked viceregal assent to proceed with creation of the new Governor's Province and with the installation as Governor of Lieut. Col. Sir Ralph Edwin Hotchkin Griffith, recently the British Resident of Waziristan* but formerly a popular British officer in Peshawar...
...Soames. When the first volume of his autobiography appeared in the U. S. last month,* readers had a chance to learn something of a man who is still comparatively unknown to the general public, though he has had his paintings hung in dozens of museums from Chicago, Ill. to Peshawar, India and has assiduously hunted celebrities for 40 years. The celebrities he hunts are always intellectual: artists, writers, professors, scientists. He pays little attention to tycoons or statesmen. Every few years he does a new picture of his friend George Bernard Shaw...
...inforcements continued to arrive in the Peshawar area from Lahore, including a battalion of Seaforth highlanders? the old "Rosshire Buffs"?most feared of all British units by frontier tribesmen for having often and soundly whipped them in the past. The R. A. F. removed all white women from Peshawar, and then proceeded to demolish the villages of every tribe that had joined in the insurrection, allowing the occupants 24 hr. to take to the fields. To put the government of the frontier in the hands of the military, Viceroy Lord Irwin declared martial...