3-085-653 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Indian Frontier Rising: a sniping affair by the camp, 1898. 'The only active operation which is just now going on in the highland countries over the north-west Punjab frontier is the expedition of General Sir Bindon Blood to chastise the Bonerwals, a warlike tribal folk infected with fierce Mohammedan fanaticism, dwelling to the north of Peshawar, between the Swat River and the Indus...Those people have since that period not given any serious trouble to the Indian [ie British] Government before the recent treasonable intrigues of the Moslem leaders of sedition, and they will simply get a mild lesson to remain at peace. Sir Bindon Blood's force, composed of two brigades led by Brigadier-Generals W. J. Meiklejohn and P. D. Jeffreys, consisting mainly of battalions of the Royal West Kent and East Kent Regiments and Bengal Native Infantry, with Punjabis, advanced on Jan. 5 from Katlang and Rustam, and seized the Tanga Pass on Friday, with slight resistance from the enemy, whose power is not to be compared with that of the Afridi confederation in Tirah, beyond the western frontier. At the winter headquarters of Sir William Lockhart, in Bara, the army is now quiescent; the Zakka Khels have cleared out of the Khyber Pass'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.