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was impossible to see further than this. All Governments, all Rulers,
meet the same difficulties. Wide considerations of principle, of policy,
of consequences or of economics are brushed aside by an impetuous
emergency. They have to decide off-hand. The statesman has to deal with
events. The historian, who has merely to record them, may amuse his
leisure by constructing policies, to explain instances of successful
opportunism.
On the 30th of July the following order was officially published: "The
Governor-General in Council sanctions the despatch of a force, to be
styled the Malakand Field Force, for the purpose of holding the
Malakand, and the adjacent posts, and of operating against the
neighbouring tribes as may be required."
The force was composed as follows:--
1st Brigade.
Commanding--Colonel W.H. Meiklejohn, C.B., C.M.G., with the local
rank of Brigadier-General.
1st Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment.
24th Punjaub Infantry.


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