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- is. i js* ■ ’- *"fT i MOST BELIEF OF’ ’'^oif^H^H .. - ' [*H* AGCKZAiBBgjHj^H India Is just as safe tot ain as it ever vac, General C. W. F. officer attached to Indian quarters, who arrived at the Wanganella from short htttiisay visit to ICewrJß^^B "Occasionallyr he said, storms and troUMed waters north-west frontier. but are common to 'every countries.’* V -j||j^^B Major-General Melville spent the bat 36 years % In his opinion toe general jMhm Hiana were much easier by side with than any other people. It was. Of course, nataHBBB in such a huge population thamdßß foe agitators, those with leanings and others who lafs, but most were ■ ouite with British policy and forward to the larger sponsibility which the tfoowouldgive them. Illiteracy was one of which made officialdom, the imBHH tern in India, absolutely “Some of the people.'’ General Melville, “are no ate' than their bullocks.** ; mmmm Major-General Melville, wbOBB|U pointed an honorary King in 1931, has had a record in Indian Army Since 1933, he has been OeMnmflß tor. of Medical" Services QC‘l|ißßl era Command. His first in the Indian Medical 1901, and since then he has hflßH| ous posts, including that <*‘flßßl officer of the 9th Bengal LaflH the 10 years immediately bfjHBB Gteat war, part of which with the Egyptian Ibcpeq|Hßß Force. . Major-General Melville I# mBB tire .next March. He will IgHnß bis return to India on Oetohac||Hßl Wellington. ■
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21907, 7 October 1936, Page 14
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