THE INDIAN FRONTIER WAR.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]
Sin,—I have read with interest the article in the Spectator of August 21st entitled "The Indian Frontier War ; " but will you allow me to say that your simile, that Sir George White "is the strong man armed standing in the gate," is scarcely appropriate ? He no longer stands in the gate—or rather gates—of our frontier, for he has advanced far into the narrow tortuous passes of that great mountain barrier which so effectually covers India's North-West Frontier, where our- troops can neither turn to the right nor to the left ; and the gates, left far in their rear, may at any moment be shut behind them, as the gate leading to Chitral has recently been closed. Then, as now, we should be obliged to mobilise an Anglo-Indian army, probably at the worst season of the year,. to reopen the gates and relieve the beleaguered garrisons, our soldiers and transport in the meanwhile melting away,—the former from sun-stroke, fever, dysentery, and pneumonia., the latter from starvation and overwork.—I ant, Sir, &a., H. B. HANNA, Colonel.
Ashcroft, Petersfteld, August 24th.
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