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THE CHINA-MAIL.
THE INDIAN ARMY.
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before Delhi were nisu of the Indian race in the glorious campaign in Central Ind in 1858, the wings of Sir Hugh Rose army were composed of ustivo cavalry; t Muting veterans who tottered into t area at the Delhi Darbor had in the rauke many of the best and bravest soldie of our army.
A Glorious Record..
Writing of the Indian Army a military correspondent of the Times of India says:- The military history of the world presents uð morð rænarkable spectacle than that off. The story of the Indian Army calls t
which, led by a few British officers has carried the British fag into every corner of the Eastern Hemisphere during the
MITSUBISHI COSHI KWAISHA the grunt army of soldiers of fortune the industry of a Gibbon and the pen.
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birth and breeding, who with their arst accouts learnt to sp of war, the sepoya of Hindustan and of the four quarters of
Indiu have carved the Empire to which
Macaulay to do justice to those gree deeds which won the Empire. splendid record illuminates every pag of Indian history that glown with lurid light of war. In devotion, valour, and in discipline, our natis troops have emulated the legions of Rome Since 1857 the stain of insurabction be
been washed away in bloodshed for th Empire on many a bard-fought field. Th native soldiers have stablished in histor a monument that will endurs so lung the great world spias down the ringin grooves of change, and it is well that thei courage and fidelity should be noknow lodged in a substantial manner; Ducijų the past few years many benefits have been conferred on our Indian Army and it iệ fitting that the dawn of the last your in the term of office of the great soldier who roles over ita fortonos should be marked by thi culminating measure of recognition of ite great and glorious deeda.
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FRIDAY, FEBRUART 5, 1908.
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they owe allegiance from North China to Ceylon, and from Eastern seas. In the conquest of India itself, in the many cam paigas which the gradual absorption of the peninsula has involved, they have borne a conspicuous part. The very men who op posed us so courageously in war-Sikhe Gurkhas, Pathane, Mahrattas, Jats, and Rajputa have fought with no less valour in the ranks of our army. They braved the terrors of the black and unknown eeas in sailing to the conquest of Bourbon, Maur- itine, and Java, With Cornwallis and Harris they traversed the passes which, dark with junglo and worn by mountain torrents, led them to Mysore and the capture of Beringspstam. Under Olive and Stringer Lawrence, Eyre Coote, Lako, and Wellesley they helped to cust the French from Southern India, and contended in our ranks against their fellow countryman. The great theatro of war in which they
Care of CHIKA Maix' Offcs. have fought within the confines of India TENDERS will be roofvod at the Head
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beasts and clad with dense forests whose solitades were eckiem disturbed by the, presence of man, and culminating in tall peaks, -crowned by massive forta, hoary with age and bristling with guns. There were rich alluvial plains, dotted with villages and large and populous cities, and
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Tint the sepoy emerged triumphant from the difficulties and dangers which besot him. Led by British officers and in 1940 company with British soldiers he helped by his discipline and valour to add all this
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with anarchy. The tide of war ́rolled to i the north, user to return. From Chitral
to Makran our native soldiers have follow-
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