Four hundred officers are to be axed out of the Indian Army between 1935 and 1941 to break up the block in promotion. At first they were to be retired right away at ordinary rates, than came a modification gratuity, and finally they are to bepaid Reserve Officers at £400 a year until pension time arrives, is a compromise between a complete knock-out, modified harsh selection, and compassionate retainment in paid {dleness.. The knock is there all the same, as those to go get no promotion while drawing the unemployed dole "Another clearance is In the form of reduced tenure of command, By 1947 another 600 will go by ordinary means and by changes. A regimental lleu-tenant-colonel will hold his unit for three instead of four years and go unless promoted or employed. Other officers will go at 26 years' service unless re-employed. Promotion in future will be to fill vacancies in a fixed establishment, which is the firs! big blow at time' promotion, which will gradually disappear. All new rants come under this regulation fand as the older officers pass out, time promotion will cease,
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