DEFENCE OF INDSA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 23 December 1933, Page 7

DEFENCE OF INDSA

STRENGTH OF FORCES MINOR AND MAJOR DANGERS British Official Wireless) RUGBY, 21st December. The report of the India defence expenditure tribunal, regarding which a statement was issued to-day as a White Paper India Office communique, states that meanwhile the expert enquiry into the question of a reduction in the number of British troops in India to the lowest possible figure lias concluded that no immediate reduction is possible. The tribunal on Indian defence expenditure defined as India’s responsibility what it called the minor danger, namely, protection aaginst local aggression on her frontiers, watch and ward on tribal territory, the security of internal lines of communication, and the maintenance of law and order. This is adopted by the experts as the basis for their estimate of the strength and composition of the forces required for the defence of India. The responsibility of the major danger, namely, attack upon India by a great Power or upon the British Empire through India, is accepted by the Imperial Government in accordance with the tribunal’s recommendations.