Word: mahabaleshwar
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...Bloody Sholapur." From his cool summer capital at Mahabaleshwar, H. E. Maj.General Sir Frederick Sykes. Governor of Bombay Presidency, directed by telegraph the Royal Ulstermen's occupation of Sholapur, their tearing down of the Indian flag wherever flown, their hoisting of the Union Jack. Stay at home subjects of George V know that, given an occasional whiskey soda and a tough platoon or two, "Sir Freddy" Sykes fears his own Jehovah but no heathen God. man or devil, commands boundless loyalty from the British tommies in that glamorous, sternly romantic force "His Majesty's army in India...
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