MESSAGE FROM DARGAI...

MESSAGE FROM DARGAI ... MARKED URGENT ... VIA HELIOGRAPH ...

Captain. Carey, 10th Hussars and his 1st Brigade Signal team are dispatched to the heights above Malakand Pass...

Their mission: deliver BrigGnl Ruff-Husband's MESSAGE TO MAJ.GNL. WHITSEND at Peshawar...

They FLASHES the message, which is received and RELAYED by the Signal Team at Mardan...

To the Signal Team at Nowshera...

Who send it to its final destination: Peshawar Signal Detachment, regularly stationed atop the city's Railway Building...

Handy diagram of a "Helio":

MESSAGE CONTENT AS FOLLOWS:

ACTION 18 AUGUST ... ATTACKED AT DAWN  ON 3 SIDES ... COMBINED AZAKAI & BUNERWAL FORCES ... INCLUDING GHAZIS ... ESTIMATE 160 TO 200 TOTAL ENEMY ... CLOSE-COMBAT ALONG SOUTH WALL ... ALL ATTACKS REPELLED ... SIGNIFICANT CASUALTIES INFLICTED ON ENEMY ... CREDIT FOR VICTORY TO MEN OF 1ST BRIGADE ... NATIVE BUGLER DIRKA GRIMM YORKS & LANCS ACTED ABOVE & BEYOND CALL OF DUTY ... 9TH GURKHA PIQUETS ATOP MALAKAND DISTINGUISHED THEMSELVES ... NO. 2 DEJARAT MT. BATTERY SCREW-GUNS PERFORMED BRILLIANTLY ... E/B RHA ARRIVED MIDST OF FIGHT & WENT STRAIGHT INTO ACTION ... PRELIMINARY ESTIMATE OUR CASUALTIES ... 16 KIA, 26 WIA ... SAD TO REPORT JEMADAR JAI HO SINGH 2ND PUNJAB CAV. PFF RETIRED KIA IN HAND-TO-HAND FIGHT AT SOUTH WALL ... BROM SISTERS SAFE & SOUND ... ENEMY COMMANDER GUL AKBAR KHAN WIA BUT RECOVERED BY HIS MEN & ESCAPED CAPTURE ... SUNLIGHT FADING ... MORE INFO TO FOLLOW VIA COURIER ... INCL. PHOTOGRAPHS ... SIGNED S.RUFF-HUSBAND, BRIG. GNL. COMMANDING 1ST BRIGADE PESHAWAR FIELD FORCE.