FRONTIER CAMPAIGN. CHITRAL AND THE N.W 522 Northamptons by the Highland Light Infantry. The Devons were also sent back from Fort Bara.

was overtaken by darkness on the mountain road ; but, though the tribesmen were firing from the hills,General Hart brought the long baggage train in without losinga single load, by using the happy expedient of lighting bonfires at intervals alongthe track. The two divisions of Sir WilliamLockhart's force andHammond's column were then marched down toFort Bara, where the whole army, concentrated on British territory, enjoyed a well-earned rest. The continual lossesinaction, the still heavier drain on the regiments by death and sickness, had reduced every battalion and unit in the force to a mere fragmentof what it had been when the advanceinto the Orakzai and Afridi country began.

Amongthose who lost their lives by sickness was General Yeatman-Biggs. He had been in bad health almost from the outset; and we have seen how he directed the attack on Dargai from his camp-bed on the ridge behind the fighting line. Sir William Lockhart had more than once urgedhim to leave the front, but he had stayed on, anxious to retain the command of his division till the operations were completed. AtFortBara he resigned the command and started forCalcutta ;but he could only go as far as Peshawur, where he died on January 4th. In a General Order addressed to the Indian army, the Commander-in-Chief summed up his long recordof service in China, in South Africa, in Egypt, and on the North-West Frontier, and expressed the regretof the army for "the premature death of this gallant and distinguished officer" Tlae Reserve Brigade at Rawul Pindi was brokenup,and some of the battalions that had suffered most severely at the front were sent back and replaced by others drawn from the reserve. Thus the Dorsets were relievedby the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, and the LIEUTENANT RICHMOND BATTYE. (Photo:Stanley&" Co., Gloucester Road, S.W.)