The selection of Lord Willingdon as Viceroy of India is welcomed by all who have interest in the Pacific and its problems. He knows them, not as a London politician, but as} one who has been in and around] the Far East as an official for many years, Let me give the point its] due significance. In 1895 he was appointed A.D.C. to Lord Brassey] in Australia and under his tutelage} lost nothing of the naval aspect of the Far East at a time when Jay was arming for Russia and the] mainland. He visited China and] studied her problems in the Boxer trouble. He was Governor of Bom bay and then of Madras and took] hig survey of Burma. and Malaya as continuous to the Pacific prolems and was able in 1924 to put] India's case to the League of Nations. He re-visited China in 1926} as chairman of the delegation from Boxer Indemnity Commission the Pacific were. of value to} the Government. In the same yest went as Governor-General to] Canada and has had a Pacific const-Tine in his purview and an interest in Hongkong and Singapore naval developments.
Now he goos back to India at] time of change when a foremost] problem is defence, with a new re-Intion to the growing naval strength in the Pacific which is concentrating strategic interests in the For East. India therefore must be the fature military hub of the Empire] with an outpost of increased strength in Malaya. Lord Willingdon has been 16 years an Artillery] Militia Officer and several years a Yeomanry Officer. His rank is now] Golonel plus his Commandership-Chief of Canada's army. In India will be associated with a C-in-C. who like himself has been a Militia man and a Cavalryman.
A "Suffolk" Reward?
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