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Last week the British wound up their biggest experiment yet in the use of modern armament in India. Their enemy: the non-passively-resistant blood brotherhood of turbaned Hurs in Sind Province...
...goad to action was a new outbreak of rapine and train-wrecking in protest against the jailing of the Hurs' Robin Hood leader, the lecherous, pock-marked Pir of Parago (TIME, June 15). Coordinating land and air forces, the British dropped parachutists on the edge of the Sind desert. From there they moved west toward the Hurs' jungle stronghold in Makhi Dhand, the "honey swamp." A column of camelry moved in from the north. From the east, Punjab constabulary in assault boats drew the trap tighter. A motorized infantry unit completed boxing the jungle...
...Hurs do not believe in passive resistance. So last week the British clamped down martial law in the Hurs' part of the frontier province of Sind...
Their turbaned Pir believes that he is the pock-marked man of ancient prophecy who is to become King of Sind. He has no recognized relatives, and indeed recognition would be difficult, since the Hurs share each other's wives, sisters and daughters. But Pir of Pagaro has sons, and he once nearly killed one who came before him barefooted...
...confined to the city of Karachi, from which he escaped last year to prey upon witnesses who had testified against him. Shortly he was arrested again, for sabotaging telegraph lines, and jailed in Nagpur. But 1,000 miles away his shadow is still dark over Sind...