AUSTRALIA AND INDIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 April 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIA AND INDIA.

CO-OPERATION IN MILITARY AFFAIRS. Bf Telegraph.—Press Assn—Cojjyrifbt. Londqn, April 13. X representative of the Australian freas interviewed a high o filial in the India Office in reference to General Bird wood's suggestion for in interchange of Indian and Australian officers. The official said it was highly important that there should be the closest co-operation between the two armies became in any future war eastward of Suez in which Britain was involved, it Wan inevitable that the Indian and Australian armies should fight shoulder to Shoulder. It was important they should, as far as possible, understand each other's customs and methods of warfare. The Indian army was a splendid training ground for Australian officers and he hoped the pre-war arrangement of sending one New Zealander and one Australian to the Staff College at Quetta Would be resumed and extended. At present an additional six New Zealanders were receiving training in the Ifold in India and might form the nucleus of a scheme such a« General BirdWood proposed, but a definite suggestion must emanate from Australia. _ The authorities were at present coneidertag the details of a proposal to have military missions from the various Allies attached to Indian headquartersAustralia should be similarly represented, fnite apart from any scheme for the int*change of officers.—Aug. and N.Z. fttie Assn.