No. 1 Company Bengal Sappers and Miners. No. 4 Company Bengal Sappers and Miners. No. 6 Company Bengal Sappers and Miners. RESERVE BRIGADE. Major-General Channer, V.C., C.B. No. 7 Bengal Mountain Battery.[72] 3rd Battalion Rifle Brigade. 26th Punjab Infantry.[73] 2nd Battalion 1st Gurkhas. 2nd Battalion 3rd Gurkhas. LINES OF COMMUNICATION TROOPS. 1st Battalion East Lancashire Regiment. 29th Punjab Infantry.[74] 30th Punjab Infantry.[75] No. 4 Hazara Mountain Battery. MOVEABLE COLUMN (ABBOTTABAD). No. 8 Bengal Mountain Battery. 2nd Battalion 2nd Gurkhas. 2nd Battalion 5th Gurkhas. Railway concentration commenced on the 26th March, and in seven days the force was concentrated at Hoti Mardan and Nowshera. A proclamation was published to the tribes through whose territory it would be necessary for the force to pass, announcing that the quarrel of the British Government was only with Umra Khan of Jandol, and stating that there was no intention of permanently occupying the tribal country, or of interfering with the independence of its inhabitants. In reply, the Sam Ranizais consented to our passage through their territory, while some of the headmen in Lower Swat tried to adopt an attitude of armed neutrality, and the Upper Swatis failed to combine against us. The Khan of Nawagai promised to do his best to keep Bajaur quiet, and the maliks among the Bunerwals, Utman Khels and Mohmands seemed anxious to keep their people out of the quarrel. [Sidenote: The Malakand Pass] On the 1st April the First Brigade moved to Lundkwar, the Second and Third to Jalala, the General intending to advance into Swat by the Shakot and Malakand Passes. During this day, however, the report of the friendly or neutral intentions of the border tribes was seriously discounted by the receipt of information that large bodies of tribesmen were holding not only these two passes, but also the Morah, which, by reason of its propinquity to Buner, there had been no intention of using. It appearing that of the three the Malakand was the least strongly occupied, Sir Robert Low decided to force the Malakand, making a feint with his cavalry towards the Shakot. He therefore concentrated all three brigades at Dargai, at the southern foot of the Malakand, early on the morning of the 2nd April.