Word: frontierisms
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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...
...inforcements continued to arrive in the Peshawar area from Lahore, including a battalion of Seaforth highlanders? the old "Rosshire Buffs"?most feared of all British units by frontier tribesmen for having often and soundly whipped them in the past. The R. A. F. removed all white women from Peshawar, and then proceeded to demolish the villages of every tribe that had joined in the insurrection, allowing the occupants 24 hr. to take to the fields. To put the government of the frontier in the hands of the military, Viceroy Lord Irwin declared martial...
Eager to impress French readers with the "warlike spirit" of Germany, Le Journal reproduced the design of the new German coins, headlined the coin's motto: "The Rhine, Germany's River, Not Germany's Frontier...
General Salikh Pasha of Turkey, with horse, foot and artillery marched over the Persian frontier last week to surround the rebel Kurdish tribesmen who for the past two months have been holding out on the slopes of Mount Ararat against some 30,000 well-equipped Turkish troops (TIME, July 28). Persia protested the invasion formally, did nothing to stop...
...more interesting accusations. The real cause of the trouble near Ararat, they said, was not the Kurds' perennial desire for independence, but their new desire for Oil. Year ago Djevet Eyoub. Turkish engineer who had spent 20 years in Texas oil fields, went prospecting along the Turko-Irak frontier. He found unmistakable traces of oil on Turkish territory not far from the British-owned Mosul oil fields of Irak. It is not impossible that Turkish wells on the new oil fields might. if driven, drain Mosul wells dry.* Succinct was a message from Angora last week...