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New Delhi, Nov. 2 Another British officer. Captain 4J.FLH, Peacocke, of the 0/i8th Fron-Force Rifles, is learned to-day to have been wounded during the clash with "Afghan tribesmen in" the Khaisora Valley, in Waziristan, on November 28.
The casually list is now twenty alled. including two British officers, and. 89" wounded, including three British officers and ten Indian Sepoys.
The only British regiment which took part in the engagement was the Ast battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment.
The trouble In Waziristan began with the alleged kidnapping" from Bannu last year of a fourteen-year-old git], whom the High Court subsequently ordered to be restored 19) her parents.
Muslims, Jed by an obscure and fanatical young Fakir. agitated and ernment took action. {led for refuge to the territory of the Ton Khel tribesmen.
is believed that the gir} is now living. with her mother. but their whereabouts are unknown—Reuter.
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