Lieutenant Gentry, the new area qfficer at Masterton, who had considerable experience in the fighting on tho Indian frontier, informed an “Age” reporter that the reason for the protracted Sature of these wars now-a-days as compared with 20 years ago was that the natives were now comparatively well armed with rifles obtained from Bolshevik sources. It was now a much more difficult proposition to subduo them,
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11433, 1 February 1923, Page 4
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