THE FRONTIER OFFICERS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6710, 31 May 1900, Page 2

THE FRONTIER OFFICERS.

There has been no body of Imperial officers more self-sacrificing than those who have immolated themselves on the altar of duty on the north-western frontier of India, and probably none who have received smaller consideration at the hands of the State. The " last of the frontier officers," as the Dunedin Star calls Colonel Sir Robert Warburton, I who died last year, is responsible for one of the most interesting histories on j the frontier question, dealing mainly with the historical Khyber Pass, which has just been published, and although -like Lord Roberts' 41 years in India Warburton's 37 years' service on the nation's behalf is only lightly dwelt upon, there is sufficient proof that he is fit to rank with those members of the family—like our own Auditor-General who have made the name famous in both the old and new world. The closing incidents of the book deal with the Tirah campaign, to which Su-Eobert was attached as political officer, and in which occurred the celebrated double charge of the Gordon Highlanders in taking the heights of Dargai, a campaign which was made necessary by the fatuous supidity so common where the British race has to deal with aboriginal natives.