POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN INDIA
NORTH WEST MAIL. By Victor Bayley. Robert Hale, London, through Whitcombe and Tombs. Price
Political strife is the background of Mr Bayley’s latest story which covers a train wreck, smuggling, political agitation against British rule in India, a Russian attempt to recover valuable jewels, and a pitched battle. All these incidents occur during a train journey from Bombay to Delhi. In the compartment of the train the author assembles a great variety of characters—the Governor, on whose life an attempt is made, a police superintendent, four subalterns bound for the north-west frontier, a very pleasant Parisian jeweller and his wife, a jilted and embittered fiancee, the guard’s very precocious niece, a Moslem agitator who hates violence, four surly Pathans, and an artist who does everything but paint. It is a stirring story interwoven with some interesting political history.
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Southland Times, Issue 23954, 21 October 1939, Page 10
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