LOYALTY IN INDIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 178, 27 January 1914, Page 5

LOYALTY IN INDIA.

TKUUI'S. "*,. IX JJISAFI-'KCTJii) AIiKA. 0*

U'.v '.(1.,,., Civ*, .Wi-wuoii -Copyr^ir^l I Jtc-c-i-ivt-a 20, U.4U p.m. ",||| London, January 26>'c£& Advices from Calcutta state thai W soldiers participating in 11,.. K a , t era~l Bengal manoeuvres wore luiunighed tt','"l the perfervid popular welrc-,,,.. Eighty '"1 thousand men are concenuaa-.! „, and -fl! n round Dacca. >« Major-General .Sir 1! u 1,,..; iu * % commands battalions of ,],.. jU ]ftCk ti \ Watch, Argylis, Sutherland,, and other ■' British regiments, and four liutciies c f ~i\ artillei-y— somu! of tlic snuutist corps in the British Army. Very few people ia ' li Ule district li,ul ever set eyes on British soldiers, there having been nol regu- ,-■* lars at Dacca .since the native detach- '"* went garrisoning the fort mutinied in -'■" 1857. V-

■The country is remote from the frcn- ';? icrs, ana is cut off by riven an* ''2 wampa from the routes frequented bg 5 J roops, uiid is the wntre of aggrewirre :.\ ledition. * ; : ,'i The selection of sueh an'area tor the, - "'| manoeuvres is a bi ff departure. Reg}-" , * ments marching tliithcv were ev«j» '/ij where welcomed, even small v'.-agas . ;*! erecting arelips. Colonels wen r- - ' .'"

landed and presented with adiir - t , ■/ and fruit, cigarettes, and other g ft» ■*■ were thrust into the hands of the' "V, troops. Creat crowds are visiting the' J "' camps. .;

General Seal.'on, in order to envpha*„-.c. the peaceful nature of the proceedings,

ordered the Hoy Scouts to head tlie

ceremonial march through the town,

Large numbers of women, throwing aside their veils, watched the march.

J UNCANNY AND UNEXPECTED ] /• 1 Received 2(1, 11.43 p.m. j Calcutta, January 26. 1 Tli« kecne-t, hitcre-l was evinced in I tho sham fi>htin». An officer describes I the heartiness 0 f the reception as "a|. I most uncanny,'' so different was it froii j what was expected. The effect on the British Indian soldiers was bewildering. I Tho Standard says it is too soon to • ask what the, ISeiisfili ne/itators and sedij tion-mongers think of (lie enthusiasts ) welcome of (lie troops, in striking conI trast the sullen reception given j the Vicerov at Calcutta. Everything J points to (he complete success of tho j concentration as n political move.