The Friend of India and Statesman Tuesday August 6th 1878

Neither of these gentler:nen it seema have yet learned to read accurately; for the one infOrmed the Government;' as the other in the above °tweet informslais readers that the scheme " was fathered' withOut beeitation on the Government of Ihdia." The Geverwent of India had not of course seen our articles when they received the blundering telegram from the Editor of the Daily News and they [...] Thus my survey may for the present safely be confined to a consderation of the defence of these paces and taking all the circumstances of the case into view I am strongly of opinion that while the object was their retention in the hands of the Turks the plan of the campaign should be offensive-defensive. [...] Troops should 'arrive from India no as to take advantage of the winter months to go through the low country At this time the climate is splendid no that no sickness need be feared and the army could assemble at the northern-most points on the routes ready to advance directly the melting of the snow made the roads practicable I have before remarked on the scarcity of fuel and as this is the g [...] One would suppose that the mere presence of the hero of Coomaesie in the Levant was expected to act as a charm to subdue the evil nature alike of the Russian the Turk and the brutalised victims of Turkish misrule. [...] It seems however to be impossible to impress this view of the question upon the conscience of men who have graduated in the school of the present Prime Minister though happily it has not been found impossible to awaken the conscience of the better classes of the English people to the infamy of a Turkish alliance.