"مجلد I مذكرات بخصوص بلاد فارس والمنطقة الحدودية الشمالية الغربية. ١٩٠٥." [و‎‎١‎٤‎٨] (٣١٠/٣٠٠)

Chitral road, to use any available levies to
repel aggression within his own territory.
Miangul Jan is trying hard to raise a
faction in Upper Swat by messages to the
Mianguls, but nothing appears to have been
settled. In Dir itself a great deal of corre
spondence is going on concerning the sides
which the various Khans and tribes are to
take in the event of a struggle between
the brothers, but it is unlikely that anything
will be settled till the Khans see clearly
what advantage is to be gained by them
personally by joining either side. Saiyid
Ahmad Khan has asked permission to
enforce on Badshah Khan, with the assistance
of the Tarkhanrais, the terms of the late
NawaVs will, and he preferred at the same time
a request that Mundah should go to himself, as
it is in Tarkhanrai territory. He hinted that
he had all the Tarkhanrais with him, but it is
probable that the Khan of Khar and the sons
of the Nawab of Nawagai would prefer to
leave Miangul Jan in Mundah rather than to
see Saiyid Ahmad Khan occupying a position
giving him the control of the whole of the
Jandol valley.
On the 8th December, there was a serious
dispute among the Shamozais of Dir, in which
four men were killed and nine wounded.
Badshah Khan’s younger brother, Muhammad
Isa Khan, the officer in command of the Dir
Levies at Chakdarra, was sent out, and, with the
help of some Musa Khel Maliks, effected a
truce pending a settlement of the dispute.
Peshawar.—On the 18th December, a
Shinwari Chowkidar on the camp of the helio
graph section of No. 12 Survey party at
Tatarra hill was fired at by another Shinwari
in prosecution of a private feud. The offender
has been arrested.
On the 17th December, a report was
received that Lieutenant Mackie, 54ith Sikhs,
Commanding the detachment at Jamrud, while
out shooting in the neighbourhood of that
post, was fired at by some men. Enquiries
showed that the affair was due to a mis
take; the men concerned (three Mullagoris
and a Kuki Khel Afridi refugee sta^ ing with
them, all of good character) having mistaken
Lieutenant Mackie and his orderly at a
distance for Kuki Khels with whom they had
a blood-feud.
On the night of the 22nd December, an
armed gang of outlaws from Hazarnao, led by
the well-known Jafir, broke into the house of
a contractor living in the village of Bhanamari,
close to Peshawar cantonments, and carried
off property valued at Ks. 13,000. In the fight
which ensued one villager was wounded, while
Jafir was shot dead, and two of his gang are
believed to have been wounded.