19 JANUARY 1924, Page 9

The North-West Frontier of India has loomed rather largely in

cable dispatches recently owing to the murder of several able frontier officers, but apart from these outrages the Times correspondent believes that the normal risks of the frontier are less than at almost any time in the past. The true cause of the recent protest by the British Government to the Amir was that a band of desperadoes, stated to be a dozen strong and known' as the Kohat gang, found asylum two or three miles beyond British jurisdiction, in the territory of the sovereign and independent state of Afghanistan.