TRICKING THE ZAKKAS.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13094, 20 April 1908, Page 6

TRICKING THE ZAKKAS.

: A .correspondent "of 'The Times'J. writes .from Peshawar:—: During tiie operations against the Za_ka. vaTibus devices were employed',to keep, the enemy in ignorance of.'■t^b.;.."- Brsfc-h.' movements. The last ___.—_vre was the oleveresfc of all, for ib succeeded in ■ deceiving oyerybody_ even the troops "and camp foflrowers. "While the oi the evacuation was .already settled ; in the General _ ipind, the troops were set to work* building stone huts and making drains, ati if the occupation, of the valley were to be permanerit. These works .were watched by the jirgaks coming into camp. The Zahka drew ithedr own," though, wrcng, con-, elusions, for the veiy morning after the* works indicating a lengthened stay were concluded we were up .and off. | The pickets .left their, fires., burning, ; and the last picket withdrawn in, the morning reported that before they left the crest of the hit. a p_trtyof men were, seen in the distance oomdng towards the camp bearing a white flag. Great must have been the surprise of these men to find us .gone. 'The Zak_a, thcreifore coTrJd' not have followed us up, even had they so wished. For oneq it' cannot he said of an expedition iv the Afridi hills that; it made peace tempered by a rearguard action. /••:.-..