[Footnote 5:] [The] late Sir Thomas Baker, K.C.B., who died as Quartermaster-General at the Horse Guards.]
[Footnote 6:] [The] late Sir Charles MacGregor, K.C.B.]
[Footnote 7:] [Now] Major-General Combe, C.B.]
[Footnote 8:] [This] promising young officer greatly distinguished himself at Kabul, and died a few years afterwards of cholera.]
[Footnote 9:] [Now] Sir Mortimer Durand, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E., British Minister at Teheran.]
[Footnote 10:] [TELEGRAM] DATED 6TH SEPTEMBER, 1879.
From CAPTAIN CONOLLY, ALIKHEL.
To FOREIGN SECRETARY, SIMLA.
'Clear the Line.—Sirkai Khan, bearer of the Amir's first letter, confirms previous reports of disaster, and describes how Badshah Khan visited the spot, and saw the dead bodies of the Envoy, staff, and escort. Of the latter, some nine sowars are said to have been out getting grass that day, and were not killed with the rest; defence was very stubborn, and the loss of the Kabulis heavy, put down at one hundred, or more. Finding they could not storm the place, the mutineers set fire to the doorway below, and, when that gave way, swarmed in and up to the upper story, overwhelmed the defenders, and sacked the place.
'The second letter was brought by another messenger, servant of the Embassy Mehmandar, whose story in all but a few unimportant details is the same as that first received.