General Willcocks's force operating in the Mob mend country has
virtually accomplished all that it set out to do. The chief fight of the week was on Sunday last with the Inman Khel, who stirred up much opposition to us in the campaign of 1897, but had never been punished. The Utman Khel numbered from two thousand to three thousand. The special corre- spondent of the Times says :—" Never in a long experience of frontier warfare have I seen so many tribesmen simultaneously exposed to the merciless lash of shrapnel, Maxim, and magazine. They were whipped from the nullahs to the hill- side, and from the hillside to the crest. Incidentally, the 21st Cavalry caught a small posse in the open and sabred them." The Utu2an Khel and the Shamezai subsequently sent a letter to General Willcoeks begging him to spare them. On Monday the Times correspondent telegraphed that all the tribes adjacent to the British administrative border were ready to submit. The country is very difficult, the heat has been terrible, and the endurance of the troops has been heavily taxed. But it looks as though Sir James Willcocks, profiting by experience, had eclipsed all other frontier expeditions in skill, precision, and promptitude.
