EAST AND WEST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 305, 23 December 1914, Page 4

EAST AND WEST.

The landing of Indian soldiers in France to join their British brothers at the front, made a tremendous impression on every foreigner who saw it. One American who was there puts it well, too, when, after a lengthy eulogy of the Sikh and Gurkha as fighting men, he says: “They know precisely what they are fighting for, these bronzed, dark-eyed warriors of India, no one better; the principle of honor, the principle of ordered liberty, the principle of human faith. They know just why the British Empire is in this conflict, the British Raj, of which they are so proud to form a part. How do they know the British Empire and the English? Because every race among them—the fathers and grandfathers of the men of every regiment—have fought against the armies of the English in India; and the races of East and West have learned to honor and love each other, as courageous, honorable, indomitable fighters.”