INDIAN ARMY
NATIVE OFFICER DIFFICULTY. Frees Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. DELHI, March 5. (Received March 6, at 12.25 p.m.) “It is no simple matter to form a national army in India, because India is not a nation,” declared tho Coramamlor-in-Chiet, General Eawlinson, at the Imperial Assembly. Ho was speaking in reply to the debate on the military Budget, in which the Nationalists pressed for the rapid Indianisation of the army. General Eawlinson added that opinion was divided as to whether the army would ever be able to do without British officers. la his view it was impossible for many years. Tho experiment of Indianising eight units was not progressing, ai>;? he bad found that an Indian officer trained at Sandhurst preferred service in units whose officers were British. The Indianisation of the army was so full of racial and religious problems that it would be in tho highest degree dangerous for tho country to proceed too quickly and risk taking an irrecoverable false step.— ‘ Sun.’
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Evening Star, Issue 18883, 6 March 1925, Page 8
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