The Chitral campaign : a narrative of events in Chitral, Swat, and Bajour . THE FIELD TELEGRAPH 237 ground was like may be judged from this photo-graph, showing the construction of the telegraph onthe Dir side of the Lowarai Pass. On good grounda mile of wire could be put up in an hour, butover mountain passes the rate of progress was ofcourse considerably slower. It is a fact worth. FIELD TELEGRAPH OFFICE, SADO. recording that on the morning of the 13th of Aprilthe telegraph office in the camp at Sado was putinto direct communication with the telegraph officeat Simla, and Sir Robert Low had a
The Chitral campaign : a narrative of events in Chitral, Swat, and Bajour . THE FIELD TELEGRAPH 237 ground was like may be judged from this photo-graph, showing the construction of the telegraph onthe Dir side of the Lowarai Pass. On good grounda mile of wire could be put up in an hour, butover mountain passes the rate of progress was ofcourse considerably slower. It is a fact worth. FIELD TELEGRAPH OFFICE, SADO. recording that on the morning of the 13th of Aprilthe telegraph office in the camp at Sado was putinto direct communication with the telegraph officeat Simla, and Sir Robert Low had a conference ofmore than an hour with the commander-in-chief,Sir George White, though they were separated by 238 THE CHITRAL CAMPAIGN two chains of mountains, and by a distance ot morethan six hundred miles. General Gatacre received orders to halt at Ashreth,and was detained there for some time, but the dayafter it was reached Major Roddy Owen, of theLancashire Fusiliers, who was corresponding for thePioneer, and Captain Younghusband, the Timescorrespondent, rode on by themselves to Chitral, adistance of thirty-eight miles. It was a very pluckything to do, for the siege had only just been raised,and the country was in a most unsettled state. The road, too, was very bad. Indeed, until thesappers took it in hand, in one or two places whereit crosses the face of a precipitous cli
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