It is a curious and encouraging fact that British workers and their }Parlinmentary leaders have recently taken especial interest in India, many of the Inter visiting India to sce things for themselves. The atest arrivals, headed by Mr, Tom Shaw, are members of the ternational Textile Workers, and we are told that this is the first of a number of other delegations proceeding to the United States, China and the near future. Mr. been ex: tremely guarded in expressing his views, rigidly ruling out questions leven remotely connected with poli tics. He, however, stated the [Lancashire textile workers thought that the removal of excise duty jon cotton goods produced in Indian mills was not in their favour and its repeal was not fair to them, Tanks for India In a Home newspaper a tank andi tractor enthusiast has been criti izing the methods favoured in Indi for securing her defence from outside aggression. Speaking of the recent tank demonstration at Camberley he says, "The Imperial effect of this object lesson was most important. So long as India clings stubbornly to her belief in scattered forces of Infantry, so long mus: the War Office maintain proportionate infantry battalions at Home land India's refusal to utilize arti lery tractors involves the expen sive training of gunners in modern methods at home, which they must} unlearn when faced with hérse-Jdrawn teams in India." He further suggests that a force invading India would find the easiest entry through Baluchistan and lays stress the utility of tanks and armour-jed cars for the defence of the North-West Frontier and maintain ing order in cases of mob violence. Finally, he urges India to reconsider her military problem with a }view to using modern mechanicalizforces.
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