Word: tribesmen
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...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...
...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...
Died. Mrs. Martha Lucretia Gulager, 83, Cherokee Indian, aunt of Funnyman Will Rogers; famed with her late husband, F. W. Gulager for educational and religious work among her tribesmen; of old age; at Tahlequah, Okla...
...remarkable one that "after three weeks" His Majesty's forces had finally "reoccupied Peshawuo," capital of the province, which had not previously been known to be out of British hands. Squadrons of R. A. F. bombing planes were said to have been "highly effective" in quelling the frontier tribesmen...
...tribesmen seems to me and to all my party beyond dispute...