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EST FRONTIER THE NORTH WEST FRONTIER

NORTH-WES

There has bee

now a war bere

the Government of India and some of the tribes of the North-west Frontier Not since the Afridis be reached Peshawar in 1930 have so of

many troops been engaged.

As the so-ca

both British and Indian troops have border policies

suffered comparatively

ed.

heavy Frontier Provin

ensive and prolo

die

those use the line which

across *wever effec Yet they are not

ong themselves. Mr. An- ose tary action and the

the populatim It dress believes (and this has been

of

2

ies between the would be so expensive, unpopular, borne out by the recent operations The and hazardous that the possibility in Waziristan) that the tribesitzen,

.. by “divided among themselves casualties and as India has got to Indus and the Hindu Kush- pay the bill (estimated at about official boundary which separates it of its trial can be dismissed.

The "close-border policy is in blood feuds and clan disputes, as $8,000 a day), it is not surprising from Afghanistan, known as the

ter find a common centre that the policy which necessitates Durand line, was fixed in 1893 as a its turn, a relic of the days before well as by mountain barriers, could

Should result of our agreement with the the Punjab was anexed to Britain. such extensive warfare

even though arouse criticism in both countries Afghan Government Up to that. Its supporters would leave the action or any single leader who

line the territory is a part of Bri- tribal areas to their own devices, would unite them,

-common hatred. Mr. C. F. Andrews's book on tish India, but in fact, the province fortify the boundary of the admin- they be roused by a "The Challenge of the North-west is divided into two, the adminis istrative area, probably with a of British domination 3 Frontier" is therefore opportune trative area and the tribal area barbed wire fence and frequent Such unity as they have is drawn The thesis which he develops in While the administrative area is forts, and reduce punitive raids from their religion. An inspired this book is that both on the short enjoying at the moment provincial to a minimum in number and ex- religious leader may dignify a raid

based on economic needs into and on the long view the present autonomy, like the rest of British tent

As a compromise between the two holy war, this year such a man, did frontier poicly should be abandon- India, the tribal area is outside all

That policy is not efficient, in Indian influence, except such as the Government of India aims at appear in the Fakir of Ipi, but he attaining its avowed aim, and it is can be exerted indirectly in the gradually introducing the tribesmen is not the first and he will not he

the changed Central Assembly or by the ma35 to the benefits of civilisation, such the last of his type.

as irrigation, education, some sys- Mr. Andrews thinks that instead spirit of post-war India. Whether of public opinion.

Supporters of the forward policy, tem of trading, and so on. As a of being a nuisance "the brother- we mean simply to police the fron- tier or, as we should, to try to re- which is a relic of the idea means to this end roads and rail hood of Islam" might be turned to ways are being built through their advantage. The large majority of territory, in the construction of the inhabitants of the North-west which the tribesmen themselves are Frontier Province is Moslem. In engaged, and considerable subsidies Afghanistan this has already help are paid to the tribal leaders as an ed the Government in its dealings inducement to keep their followers with the tribes, and there is no rea- quiet. Any considerable distur son why India should not share bance or any attack on British the advantage. This would entail troops property, or authority is giving to the North-west Frontier Imet with punitive marches and ex- Province a degree of independence peditions, while, as often as not, the in which a Molsem was in chargé co-operation of the RAF is enlist of defence, a remote prospect as "In gloom, because a girl musted to destroy the crops or villages things appear to-day.

inconsistent with

THE

WORLD GOES BY By "ULYSSES”

ISCUSSING a new provincial "I cry until I'm soaking wet

DISCUSSING a I'm-soaking

out that the orchestra will be bid- den from the audience. Cowards! - live.”

Dithyrhambics

Spoonerisms

of

is-cap-

Doubtless the time will come when "The patron of the. tivated by the general excellence of some candidate for the Ph.D. de food served, of the delightful con- gree will offer a thesis on Spooner cert music provided during dinner isms. and of the gay lilting melodies for

Too much of that sort of thing and you don't get carried you're thrown out.

Sporting Note

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passible.

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of the tribes in order to cow them. But it is not so Utopian a sng- into surrender. A truce is signed, gestion as all that: There is good rifles and ringleaders are surren-evidence that if the tribesmen feel dered, the road-building, subsidies, they are not being treated as ene and attempts at social improvement mies they will not behave are begun again and continued until enemies Mr. Andrews quotes the The Govern example of Dr. Pennell, whose "one the next out-break ment is fairly satisfied with this life-aim was to get a series of compromise. It was announced in hospitals, attached to medical mis- the Assembly on August 27 that sions, stretching across the fron- there would be no radical change in tier regions right up to the un- Certainly dissertations have been frontier policy, which has "predu touched lands of Central Asia." dancing which folow. Subdued written before now on subjects of ed solid results. No alternative Because he was trusted by the tri- light ng carries out intimacy."

less literary or linguistic import-policy, the Government said, was besmen and understood, them he was --never in danger of his life, and Mr. Andrews believes that an al- was described by a colonel as be- A lively contribution to the study of Dr. Spooner's verbal transposi-ternative policy is not only possible ing worth a couple of regiments. tions is made in the "Periodical" but imperative. In the first place, There is also the history of Abdul quarterly issued by the Oxford the present policy is far too expen Ghaffar Khan and the Redshirt sive. India, a desperately poor movement. Whatever is thought University Press.

to spend this remarkable man, there is no country, cannot afford The article adds several new half its income no "defence,” and doubt that he managed to win the the introduction of provincial au- co-operation of his fellow-tribes- Apropos of the "Daily Mail's" his- stories to the old repertory.

leaderette OH toric remark in

A New College man vouches for tonomy, though it does not mean men to an extent that the British grouse shooting one Twelfth of the fact that Dr. Spooner, when his and Indian control over either “de- authorities could never hope for August-"and the crack of the rifle guest at dinner, remarked at des- fence or foreign affairs, both of and that he has used his influence

sert that he had lately tasted & which concern the frontier policy, on the side of peace. was heard upon the moor"

when he is going to make such a lop-sided These are individual cases of out- Judging by the incessant popping of most delicious madeira

Budget even harder to justify. standing men and they are likely the shot-gum upon the Shanghai was in banana

the marshes, the snipe appear to The same authority reports Dr.The whole cost of British troops to be dismissed as unrepresenta- coming in well.

Spooner as saying to a friend of in India which number roughly 68,- tive of the real position on his, who met him travelling abroad 1000, is deducted each year from the frontier. But there is a great dan-

when military accounts in Great Britain ger that the amiable "Please remember G. to me

taracteristic of 80 and transferred to the Indian Bud- which is a you write."

They are lent" to India, much past wa British policy and Dr. Spooner is further alleged to get.

be sufficient to She is something that so few of have baptised twins as Steak and and therefore must be paid for, which has often had so many dia- the stars are, while they are stars. Kidney (Kate and Sidney), to have But the net cost of each British, astrous results

unit is at least three times the ex- carry on the present policy inde described the Prodigal Son as on

because of its "solid She is happy.

the an- Her great big eyes were full of the busy drink of destruction, and pense of an Indian unit. No won-finitely

der, then that Indian legislators achievements and bec to have given an assurance that the

are entirely opposed to incurring thorities are unwilling to risk any

other lovely insanitary spectre had seen certain this exceedingly heavy

which leaves no margin for the de- One side of Mr. Andrews book, sobbed. A. D. Godley, though he never velopment of education, medical re, and an important side, has

heard Spooner make a Spoonerism, lief, and all the social services. been mentioned. This is his, attack con- If it were not for potential of on the preservation of the use once heard him say, at the "I haven't got your humble joy clusion of a lecture, "Gentlemen, in actust operations on the frontier of the bombing aeroplane on the scusses this "ques- "In life. I'm just the public's toy. the lecture I have just delivered there would be no need for such a frontier. - He in tion in consis

ble detail. It is “A hot house fewer, forced for, wish you to note that whenever large establi

olicy which seriously im- this aspect of front

ditary dan has aroused most

tain and most and and

Heigh Ho!

tears,

eats:

twitched

her

Emotion

"Don't envy me!" Although

“I know I make a lotta dough,

be

rooms.

said Herodotus I meant Thucydides." India.

glamorous and blue, me! And all the time.

"Simplicity, My only zave "Is for a simple breath of dawn “While dew is still upon the lawn

benever

The

The Warden's characteristic eccen-agines that ricity seems even to have extended ger from from speech to writing, for he once posted at the New College lodge the notice, "Will all undergraduates who matriculated before 1819-that is,

see the Dean ?"

turn should be read

ver disar

atism

200

in Bri-

who

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