The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER, 3, 1914. EMPLOYMENT OF INDIAN TROOPS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 14, 3 September 1914, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER, 3, 1914. EMPLOYMENT OF INDIAN TROOPS.

A writer in the Christchurch Pre«s points out that curiously enough, Colonel Asager-Polloek, in the book "In the Cockj>it of Europe" makes tJie employment of Indian troops by the British Government part of his imaginary 1 plan of campaign. ' "Very quietly,'•' he says, "arid by ineans Well calculated to avert premature discovery, ships' had been,' directed to' Indian liarljours' - or retained therein, a'nd the necessary orders confidentially issued to military commanders'; . Then, the affair being well advanced and considerable bodies of troops being already en route to the ports of embarkation, it was officially announced on October 22nd that 100,000 men—2s,ooo British and 75,000 native—would immediately leave India for Egypt, in order to operate from that country in a direction whicn it would not be desirable for the present to specify." General Jkrnhardi, who left lew material paints out oi his calculations in forecasting the character of Germany's "Next War," makes no mention of our Indian troops, hut he writes with a cei'iaia amount of respect, not to say apprehension, regarding the French native troops in Algeria and Tunis, which he assumes would be certainly employed, "The tactical value of these troops," he says, "is known to any who have witnessed their exploits on the battlefields of Weissonberg and Woerth." lie adds that at least one strong division o!' Turcos was already available at the time he wrote (October, 1911). It is quite clear that the Turcos lmv< already done good wort:, and the fact that they were being employed left no adequate reason for the British Government to refuse the services ol hei ludian soldiers when these were eagerly offered. That they will give a fine account of themselves is a certainly. They are warriors and the sons oi warriors.