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Guerrilla warfare between British garrisons on the northwest frontier and bellicose Pathan tribesmen, begun when a band of Afridi ambuscaded a party of Indian cavalry in the orchards outside Peshawar (TIME, Aug. 18), continued last week. Although Royal Air Force bombers peppered the tribesmen with as many as 50 tons of bombs in a single day, Pesha- war continued surrounded by hostile besiegers. Some observers began to doubt the efficacy of the R. A. F.'s aerial attack. One rumor was that the Afridi left their capes and turbans lying on the ground when they heard the planes coming over...
...Near Peshawar, key city of the Khyber Pass, gateway to northern India, a patrol of the 17th Poona horse (Indian) rode last week through the sun-speckled fruit orchards. From somewhere rifles cracked. Six troopers dropped from their saddles. The rest wheeled, galloped back to barracks. British officers wasted no time, for they knew what the shots in the orchard meant. In five minutes bugles were blowing, cavalry, artillery were mounting, galloping out of town. At Peshawar's air station, 54 Royal Air Force pilots climbed into their planes, roared up into the blue...
...wave of the attack actually captured the British mobilization warehouse at the edge of the town, held it for three hours against all the machinery of modern warfare. Only at the stone fortress of Peshawar were the tribesmen turned. Commented the London Times: "One other lesson deserves the careful attention of the Imperial General Staff. Whatever may be the effect of bombing airplanes in open countries like Irak where vast stretches of ground are open as a cricket pitch, it would seem that punitive action from the air has lost its terrors to the Pathan. Against mobile and intelligent opposition...
Nearly 2,000 people were injured, more than 200 killed in India last week as a result of fierce riots in the north (Peshawar), east (Rangoon and Dacca), west (Bombay), and in the centre (Lucknow...
...Government, not bearing because not understanding, goaded human nature to violence, which it could understand how to deal with." Shrewd Move. Certainly there was violence enough last week in India (see map). Riots small and great broke out in the chief commercial cities of Madras, Calcutta and Bombay. At Peshawar on the northwestern frontier, in circumstances which censorship obscured, two soldiers were burned to death in an armored car ignited by natives. But most frightful of all were atrocities at Sholapur. This city - a cotton-spinning metropolis of 12,000 - was for a time virtually ruled by various mobs, some...