Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1918 — Britain's Indians. [ARTICLE]

Britain's Indians.

The Indians in the British army on the western front, notably the Sikhs, that highly disciplined military force from British India, havi little in common with the American red men. They come from the other side of the earth; they are sons of a deeply religious sect, and for 50 years or more have been an important factor in the British dominion of the far East. They are tall, well-built, haiidsome men, most of them with beards, and In perfection of drill and military bearing they are not excelled by any troops on the western front. But while their methods of fighting are quite dissimilar, the Sikh fighting force being a well-trained military machine while the American Indian is a flexible unit, there is one thing in which they are very-much alike. As a humorous English writer —Punch and its punsters' still llve-- l puts it: “I have had an opportunity to study both the Indians of the East and the Indians of the West, and while they are very dissimilar in most things, when it comes to courage, I may be excused for saying that it is Sikhs of one and a half dozen of the other I”