ABSTRACT
It was not until late in the afternoon of t 4 October that the first fUgitives started to arrive, bringing news of the disaster. The Kohima headquarters had been set up barely one year previously and had not yet been put into a proper state of defence. The settlement nestled nicely on a ridge on which had been erected two irregular-shaped stockades, each constructed of rough wooden palisades between eight and ten feet high, but which were severely disadvantaged by being overlooked by the Naga village.
