14 NOVEMBER 1914, Page 3

General Willcocks has issued an Order to the Indian troops

at the front conceived in just the right rhetorical spirit. He reminds them that if the Germans have a long history, the Indian peoples have a longer. One of Treitschke's accu- sations against Britain was that she was quite unfit to govern a people so ancient and so mystical in thought as the Indians. Now Germany has the opportunity of proving that she is not unfit to fight them.