Word: frontierisms
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Kindly give me your authority or the source of your information for the statements pp. 19 & 20 of the March 7 issue, concerning the existence of a chain of subterranean forts which guard the French frontier from the English Channel to tl e Mediterranean...
What happened next day (and indeed what happens at any time in the North-West Frontier Province) was not "news" to be lightly observed and reported by correspondents but the subject of Government handouts. According to this the Viceroy showed his "faith and trust" in the tribal chieftains by permitting them to guard and ensure his safety on a short drive into the Khyber Pass "as far as the high ground" (from which Afghanistan may be sighted) and back to Peshawar. A very old chief under a voluminous shamianah (canopy) assured Lord Willingdon that "all the trouble hereabouts...
Toward mighty Khyber Pass, the Empire's most romantic and reputedly most dangerous frontier, traveled Earl Willingdon last week, taking along the golden throne on which he sits as Viceroy of India. For this elaborate pilgrimage there were urgent reasons of state...
Beyond the Khyber lies unruly Afghanistan and behind its King Nadir Khan looms Soviet Russia. In the past year raids, riots, savage bloodletting and civil disturbance have burst forth alarmingly in the North-West Frontier territory. Therefore last week it was "raised to the status of a Governor's Province"-this British boon being conferred upon the dazzled natives with a show of might and riches calculated to arouse wholehearted fear and admiration for the British...
...durbar was to be in Victoria Memorial Hall. There on a dais the golden Viceregal Throne had been set up. Crowded close to each other on one side of the hall stood 500 frontier Khans, all in their richest gold sashes and blue turbans, all bright-eyed with mass expectancy. On the other side, starchy and aloof, stood 200 British officers and civil servants, many of them battle-scarred oldsters. Present also as Their Excellencies entered and the durbar solemnly began were the 40 who were about to become the Legislative Council...