and he may try to intercept the force moving from Gundamak. As he would leave his villages west of the Darunta cliff at the mercy of a flying column from Jellalabad, he may, perhaps, hesitate before taking such a step. The Safis of Tagao, who returned to their homes yesterday afternoon, before our reverse, will soon learn that Cabul is still in the possession of Mahomed Jan, and they also may try to block the Luttabund Road. Our losses in yesterday’s action were very severe, and among our wounded are many dangerous cases. The proportion, usually, of severe wounds is one-third out of the total wounded, but nearly every case now in hospital is “severe.” The list of casualties from the 10th to the 13th and on the 14th is as follows:— CASUALTIES FROM 10TH TO 13TH DECEMBER. ─────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────┬──────────────┬────── Regiment. │ British. │ Natives. │Total. ─────────────────────────┼─────────────┬─────────────┼───────┬──────┼────── │ Officers.│ Men. │ │ │ ─────────────────────────┼──────┬──────┼──────┬──────┼───────┼──────┼────── │ K.│ W.│ K.│ W.│ K.│ W.│ F-A, Royal Horse │ 1│ —│ —│ 1│ —│ —│ 2 Artillery │ │ │ │ │ │ │ No. 2 Mountain Battery │ —│ —│ —│ —│ —│ 2│ 2 9th Lancers │ 3│ 4│ 21│ 16│ —│ —│ 44 5th Punjab Cavalry │ —│ —│ —│ —│ 3│ —│ 3 14th Bengal Lancers │ 1│ —│ —│ —│ 7│ 4│ 12 67th Foot │ —│ —│ —│ 2│ —│ —│ 2 72nd Highlanders │ —│ 1│ —│ 5│ —│ —│ 6 92nd Highlanders │ 1│ —│ 2│ 21│ —│ —│ 24 3rd Sikhs │ —│ 2│ —│ —│ 4│ 10│ 16 Corps of Guides │ —│ —│ —│ —│ 3[33]│ 9│ 12 5th Punjab Infantry │ —│ —│ —│ —│ 1│ 10│ 11 5th Ghoorkas │ —│ 2│ —│ —│ 1│ 10│ 13 ─────────────────────────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼───────┼──────┼────── Total │ 6│ 9│ 23│ 45│ 19│ 45│ 147 ─────────────────────────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴───────┴──────┴──────