TOO MANY OFFICERS
CONGESTION IN INDIA PROPOSALS TO GIVE RELIEF. MANY COMPULSORY RETIREMENTS OVER-RECRUITMENT DURING WAR. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyrigl.'. Rec. 11.30 p.m. Calcutta, Oct. 17. The India Government has sanctioned proposals dealing with the congestion of officers in the higher and middle ranks of the Indian Army as the result of over-recruitment during the Great War. The tenure of the command of lieuten-ant-colonels appointed from January next to cavalry and infantry will be limited to three years, after which, if they are not promoted or given further employment, they will be transferred to a special list and granted one year’s leave.
Lieutenant-colonels with 26 years’ service for whom no command can be found will be granted a year’s leave, after which they will be placed on the retired list with a pension of a minimum of £7OO a year.
It will be necessary to retrench compulsorily in the next six years about 400 officers who were commissioned between August, 1914, and December, 1920.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1934, Page 7
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