116 The following is a list of the principal patrols and military operations it has been necessary to undertake during the period up to the end of 1918. Those that have taken place during 1919 are referred to in the notes on individual provinces.

1914. A small patrol in Kassala province was sent out to arrest an outlaw who had collected a following of brigands. A fight took place in which Maior J. L. J. Conry (Connaught Eangers), who was in charge of the patrol, was unfortunately killed. The enemy were practically annihilated.

Zeraf River patrol. To jjut down unrest among the Gaweir Nuers. Nuba Mountains province. A patrol to restore Government authority in Tira-el-Akhdar.

A patrol to put down disorder and brigandage in the Sabai and Mandal hills.

1915. A small patrol in the Mongalla province to punisli acts of hostility by the Lokoia tribesmen.

In Nuba Mountains province a certain Tiki Ali set himself up against the Government. Attempts to capture him lasted through the year till November, when he surrendered himself and was put in detention.

1916. » The occupation of Darfur was undertaken and concluded during this year. After these operations a Soudanese force, in conjunction with a French force from Wadai, took action against the tribes who had for some years persistently raided Northern Darfur. These operations lasted till well into 1917.

A small punitive patrol took place in the Latuka district of Mongalla province. A detachment of Soudanese troops was sent to assist the Government of the French Congo in putting down the revolt of a certain Chief Mopoi, which was successfully accomplished Considerable unrest was caused in the Upper Nile province by inroads of the Nuer on the Dinka tribe. On one occasion a native officer with fifteen men of the 9th Soudanese moved out to assist a Dinka chief against a superior raiding force of Nuers. The party was surrounded and all were killed with their officer. The continued unrest led to the Nuer patrol of 1917.

1917. A small patrol was sent to punish brigandage in the Tabai hills in the Sennar province.

Unrest was prevalent in the Nuba Mountains province among the Nyima hills, instigated by a certain chief named Agabna. After a number of collisions with Government troops, in the course of which Captain R. W. Hutton (Royal Marine Artillery) was unfortunately killed in April 1917, a considerable force was sent in the autumn to reduce the hills. This object was successfully achieved after a somewhat arduous campaign in February 1918.

A patrol was sent against the Nuers to punish them for their raids on the Dinkas of Mongalla province. Operations ceased towards the end of April.

1918. A force of Soudanese troops assisted the troops of the British East Africa Protectorate in a punitive patrol against the Turkhana tribe on the Soudan-Uganda border. In the course of this our troops came into conflict with an Abyssinian force. Operations were concluded by June 1918.

A patrol was despatched to deal with the unrest among the Dinkas in the Bahr-el-Ghazal which had arisen in 1917. The two principal rebel chiefs surrendered in May.

In iidition to these there have been many occasions not important enough to mention when the local disturbances have been dealt with by small parties of police or military. A whole class of such incidents persisting continuously throughout the war consisted of collisions with poaching and marauding bands of Abyssinians along the Eastern border of the Soudan, and especially in the Mongalla province.

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