INDIAN ARMY PENSIONS.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]
Sta,—The .Secretary of State for India in replying to a deputation of ax-officers of the Indian Army stated it was impossible to extend the increased scale of pensions, contemplated under a Royal Warrant shortly to be promulgated, to officers other than those employed in the war. Surely officers who can show a record of long years of good work—service in the Afghan campaign, 1878-80; numerous frontier punitive expeditions; service in China, Burma, Egypt, and elsewhere—should not be thus debarred and left, with their widows and dependants after them, in receipt of a miserably inadequate pre-war pension, for no other apparent reason than that they ,id not participate in the recent world-wide struggle. With7them years of retirement, the age clause, la fortune de la guerre, a dozen good reasons, may have precluded their employment. Are they not with others equally deserving of consideration at the hands of the Government P—I am, Sir, &c., C. PULLEY,
Colonel, Refined, Indian Army.
Llanberis, Langton Green, Kent.
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