London, June 17.
The Government of India has wed an appreciation of the sitaation in India for the week ending June 14, Tt stated that the Afridi situation overshadowed everything else during the week and, at one time, events threatened to assume a very serious complexion. A "lashkar," Jed by Said Badshah and other proninent Bfullahs was known to have been formed some three weeks ago near the western end of the Khyber Pass, Subsequently there were further concentrations, with standards, in the Upper Bara Valley and these began to move slowly towards the Peshawar district. By June 4 the ashkat" had reached a point about 15 miles west of Bara Fort, Te-was reported that the intention was to hold a "Jirga" tribal] ith the Khalil and Mohmand tribes of the district, with 'a view to combined resistance to alleged government oppression, On the night of June 4 the "Igshkax" entered the Peshawar district and numerous isolated gangs, game of them numbering several hundreds penetrated Khalil and Mohmand villages up to the cantonment boundary The Khalil and Mohmands were incited to revolt and to attack the cantonment but they refused.
'A large part of the "Iashke appears then to have retired towards the hills. Gangs, however, remained scattered through the Khalil and Mohmand country and in the gardens south of Peshawar city. Trees were felled and culverts destroyed on the and the entire "lashkar" appears to have withdrawn from the distriet—
On the morning of June 5 parties retreating were bombed from the air and the Royal Air Force are reported to have inflicted heavy casualties. Simultaneously a movable column marched out from Peshawar to clear the country between the Bara and Kohat roads. The drive was entirely successful and the troops, operating in very difficult terrain, are reported to have inflicted severe casualties, Details of the losses suffered by] the Government forces are not yet available, but a few casualties, was inevitable in operations of this sort, are reported to have occurred.
'A' careful search, conducted on June 6, failed to discover any Afridi stragglers in British territory, Wireless through Reuter.
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