THE INDIAN FRONTIER
ONLY LOCAL DISTURBANCES ARMY OFFICER'S FURLOUGH [BY TELEGRAPII—OWN' CORRESPONDENT] WELLINGTON, Friday Born oil the Indian North-West Frontier, and having spent many years of his life stationed in tho Army there, Captain R. It. B. Falcon arrived in Wellington by tho Rangitata to-day on furlough. Captain Falcon said tho Frontier was quiet at present, and any isolated risings were purely local. Tho tribes, ho said, were very pleased with their new system of government and wero governed by a British Army officer. Tho long history of tho trouble on tho Frontier could bo explained by the natural desire of the tribes to fight. They wero always fighting, and they were always looting. Disturbances that had taken place were merely ordinary occurrences in tho normal lives of tribes. These, rather naturally perhaps, had been exaggerated in the eyes of tho public by reason of tho fact that India, where there was serious trouble at times, was apt to bo confused with the border region. Captain Falcon is well known in Auckland where ho spent his furlough in 1926. Ho intends returning to his Army post at Poona.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21254, 6 August 1932, Page 10
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188THE INDIAN FRONTIER New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21254, 6 August 1932, Page 10
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