Show I Color in the News l 1 THERES THERE'S HERES HERE'S a a. tingling nerve thrill in the news I 1 t that has been filtering out of northern ln India Ha recently Ii like e that in one ne of or Kipling's master romances of adventure For the wild hillmen of the Afghan f frontier country those historic freebooters who ha have ve plied their trade around Khyber pass for fOT centuries are arc on the warpath again agair The c unrest in India and the prospects of loot have encouraged them to attack the city of Peshawar the last British outpost in porth northwestern northwestern north north- western I India dia Several times they have been beaten off by British troops and several times t they cy have returned Recently British airplanes airplanes airplanes air air- planes have followed them into their native hills and bombed them from the skies The Thc are undoubtedly the most ferocious and bloodthirsty fighters on the globe They battle with a a fanatical fury bred bredof of their Moslem belief that the warrior who vho dies by the sword is assured of a place in Allah's AlIah's voluptuous paradise Their life and mode of living has been little changed since the legions of Alexander the Great poured through the Khyber into India 2500 years ago Civilization has not touched these wild children of the hills except to provide them with guns uns instead of spears or swords as more efficient means of committing com corn milling murder In this age most of the news that comes a across ross the telegraph wires is drab with the worlds world's modern moden tempered even d life and its progress in that direction But occasionally from some corner of the globe there comes conics a flashing bit of color full of the thrills of roma romance ce and buried deep in the background of the worlds world's remote and interesting past Such is the news from the British outposts out out- posts in inthe the Khyber hill country today It is is' is equally as colorful and as interesting as a a. Kipling Kip Kip- ling novel and it gives us an added thrill when we we- realize that we e are reading fact in instead instead in in- stead of fiction |