1 ORDER ISSUED BY COL. WADE. 413°
2 ¢ August 6th—Camp Dhaka. The Mission
3 with the Shah Zada having now effected the
4 passage through Khaibar, ard the fall of the
5 fort of Ali Masjid having been the chief means
6 of removing every opposition to its advance
7 from that place, Lieutenant-Colonel Wade
8 (although the heads of the Governments, whose
9 officers and troops were engaged in the reduc-
10 tion of that fort, are the proper persons to ap-
11 preciate the services performed by them on
12 that occasion) cannot deny himself the per-
13 sonal gratification of expressing his own thanks
14 and acknowledgments to every officer of the
15 British Government for the able and zealous
16 services rendered by them individually in the
17 Operations which led to the attainment of an
18 object which, after a tedious detention at Pe-
19 shawr, has mainly contributed to facilitate the ©
20 progress of the Shah Zada to Kabul.
21 + Jt fell to the lot of Captains Farmer and
22 Ferris, and of Lieutenants Mackeson, Maule,
23 and Barr, in following the directions of Lieu-
24 tenant-Colonel Wade, to bear the most -con-
25 spicuous part in the late military operations;