NORTH-WEST FRONTIER TROUBLE
Frontiers are one of Britain’s problems. The North-west of Canada provided the Canadian Government with a particularly difficult problem. This was handed over to the famous “Mounteds,” who, by allowing no malefactor to escape the penalty of his crime, brought the peace of the Great White Queen to the vast spaces which stretched from Regina to the Arctic Circle.
The North-west Frontier of India, where trouble is again brewing, is a much more difficult proposition. Predatory tribes, easting covetous eyes over India, eke out a hardy existence in the valleys of the barren upland which borders Afghanistan. Britain pays tribute to tribal chiefs, and thereby places a premium on good behaviour. It is only when overt acts arc committed that the. North-west Frontier force gets busy. The moral suasion of the political agent and the material suasion of his purse arc the first line of India’s defence. After that comes the rifles in the Pass forts, but the disciplinary weapon is the aeroplane.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 179, 1 August 1933, Page 4
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