Brigadier-General P. D. Jeffreys, C.B.
1st Battalion the Buffs. 35th Sikhs. 38th Dogras. Guides Infantry.
DIVISIONAL TROOPS.
One squadron 10th Bengal Lancers. 11th Bengal Lancers. Guides Cavalry. No. 1 M.B.R.A. No. 7 M.B.R.A. No. 8 Bengal Mountain Battery. 22nd Punjab Infantry. Two companies 21st Punjab Infantry. No. 4 Company Bengal Sappers and Miners. No. 5 Company Madras Sappers and Miners.
THIRD (RESERVE) BRIGADE.
Brigadier-General J. H. Wodehouse, C.B., C.M.G.
1st Battalion Royal West Surrey Regiment. 2nd Battalion Highland Light Infantry. 6 companies 21st Punjab Infantry. 39th Garhwal Rifles. No. 10 F.B.R.A. No. 3 Company Bombay Sappers and Miners.
Extent of the Rising
By this time some idea could be formed of the extent of the rising and how far the neighbouring tribes were infected by the spirit of unrest which had been aroused. It was known that a division of the Bunerwals, the Utman Khels, the inhabitants of Lower Swat, and certain numbers of Upper Swatis had taken part in the attacks upon the Malakand position; not to mention the Dusha Khels, certain divisions of the Khwazozais, and other sub-divisions, whose names would only be worth repeating as showing how general was the rising among the local clans. But the tribes further north did not seem to have been infected with any excitement or restlessness; communication between Gilgit and Chitral was still open. The Indus-Kohistan, the Mohmand country, the Khyber, Kohat and Kurram, all then appeared to be undisturbed; the Nawab of Dir reported that the Bajauris had remained tranquil, as had also the tribes on the Peshawar border. The only disquieting frontier news to hand at this time was to the effect that a number of mullahs, with a following of fanatical tribesmen, had left Ningrahar and the neighbourhood of Jalalabad to join either the Hadda Mullah or the Mad Fakir. The bulk of the attacking force had been furnished by the men of Lower Swat, hitherto, and with some reason, despised as fighting men. Thus the Khan of Aladand, whose conduct had been exemplary since the Chitral Campaign, whose people were largely employed as levies, and who himself drew a subsidy from Government, was among those killed in one of the attacks. Thana lost nearly all its young men, and men of other villages, who for the last two years had regularly furnished supplies, turned out for this “Holy War” in obedience to the exhortations of the Mad Fakir.
The concentration of the troops composing the Malakand Field Force was completed on the 8th August; and already on the next day and on the 12th certain Ranizai and Khwazozai jirgahs came in to sue for peace, their submission being accepted on payment of heavy fines, surrender of arms, and promise of future good behaviour and non-molestation of the troops.