The Chitral campaign : a narrative of events in Chitral, Swat, and Bajour . ds a-bobbinglike a bucket full of snakes. It was difficult to obtain as many animals as wererequired for so large a force in the short timeallowed for mobilisation, and the Imperial ServiceTransport trains volunteered by the Maharajahsof Gwalior and Jeypore were of signal service allthrough the campaign. Both these corps are main-tained in a complete state of readiness for war, andthe rapidity with which they mobilised was remark-able. The Gwalior corps, which was raised in1891, left Gwalior within two days from the ti
The Chitral campaign : a narrative of events in Chitral, Swat, and Bajour . ds a-bobbinglike a bucket full of snakes. It was difficult to obtain as many animals as wererequired for so large a force in the short timeallowed for mobilisation, and the Imperial ServiceTransport trains volunteered by the Maharajahsof Gwalior and Jeypore were of signal service allthrough the campaign. Both these corps are main-tained in a complete state of readiness for war, andthe rapidity with which they mobilised was remark-able. The Gwalior corps, which was raised in1891, left Gwalior within two days from the timewhen it was warned for service, and joined theChitral Relief Force at Nowshera on April istwith 456 ponies and 193 transport carts, CaptainEdwardsof the Central India Horse, inspecting officer >48 THE CHITRAL CAMPAIGN of the Central India Imperial Service Cavalry andTransport, vi^ho has had a great deal to do with thecorps ever since it was raised, being attached to itfor duty. It should be mentioned that in addition tothis corps the Maharajah Sindia of Gwalior. KHAK VALLEY : (. .MING DOWN THE . IASBURNING IN THE DISTANCE AND VILLAGE OF KHAU also maintains for Imperial defence two regimentsof Lancers, each six hundred strong. The Jeypore Corps was raised between 1889 and1891 by the present Maharajah Sawai MadhoSingh, , who chose to forego the prestigeand dclat attaching to the possession of combatant TRANSPORT DIFFICULTIES 249 troops in order to contribute what he believed to bea more useful and necessary assistance to Imperialdefence in the shape of a transport train. He hasalways taken the keenest personal interest in it,inspecting it himself at regular intervals and sparingno expense to maintain it in the highest lines he has had made for it in Jeypore weredesigned by Colonel Jacob , CLE., thesuperintending engineer of the Jeypore State, andare the most complete of their kind in India. The corps is composed of a thous
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