INDIAN ARMY
TO BE REORGANISED INTO FOUR COMMANDS. „ Simla, October, 24. In consonance with the recommendations of the Esher Committee the Indian Army will be reorganised from November 1 into four commands—Northern, Eastern, Southern, and Western The armies will be under General Officers and a Commander-in-Chief. Burma remains an independent district. In view of the recent inflammatory speeches, the Governor of the Punjab has prohibited public meetings in the districts of Lahore and Amritsar.—Reu* ter. [The report of the Esher Committee stated that the centre of graviy of probable miliary opevations had shifted from the West to the East, and that Britain must contemplate the possibility of our armies operating in the Middle East, based partly on India and partly on Home. .The report urged the ne.cessity of decentralisation, especially decreasing the detailed control by the India Office, and proposed that an Indian territorial force should be established.]
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 29, 29 October 1920, Page 7
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148INDIAN ARMY Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 29, 29 October 1920, Page 7
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