for instance, the fire of the enemy to be delivered from the right, a portion of the force in front should be ready to dash along the road for 100 yards, or so, or until some opening in the jungle offers itself.  The party should then turn to the right and sweep round with a view to intercepting the enemy in his flight.  A party in rear should similarly enter the jungle to their right with the same object.  The centre of the column would hold the ground and protect the baggage or any wounded men.  The different parties must be previously told off, put under the command of selected leaders, and must act with promptitude and dash.  Each party must be kept in compact order, and individual firing must be prohibited, except when there is a clear prospect.  Past experience suggests the adoption of some such plan as the above, but in guerilla warfare officers must suit their tactics to the peculiar and ever-varying circumstances in which they may find themselves engaged.

18th.—­The Government have ordered a general disarmament of the country, as soon as the large bands of rebels and dacoits are dispersed.  The orders for this disarmament direct that all firearms are to be taken from the people, but that a moderate number may be returned to responsible villagers who are loyal and are able to defend themselves.  No firearms will be returned save under registered licenses; and licenses will be given only for villages which can produce a certain number (5 to 10) guns, and are either stockaded or fenced against sudden attack.  The duty of disarming lies on civil officers and the police; but as it is desirable that the disarmament should be effected as quickly as possible, officers commanding posts and columns will give such assistance as may be in their power in carrying it out.

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APPENDIX XII.

(Referred to in Chapter LXVIII, Note *.)

To His EXCELLENCY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE FREDERICK BARON ROBERTS OF KANDAHAR AND WATERFORD, BART., V.C., G.C.B., G.C.I.E., R.A., Commander-in-Chief of Her Majesty’s Forces in India.

MAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY,

We, the undersigned, representing the Sikhs of the Punjab, most respectfully beg to approach Your Excellency with this humble address of farewell on Your Lordship’s approaching departure from this country.  We cannot give adequate expression to the various ideas which are agitating our minds at this juncture, relating as they do to the past, present, and future, making us feel, at one and the same time, grateful, happy, and sorrowful.  The success which Your Excellency has achieved in Asia is such as makes India and England proud of it.  The history of the British Empire in India has not, at least for the last thirty years, produced a hero like Your Lordship, whose soldier-like qualities are fully known to the world.  The country which had been the cradle of Indian invasions came