The Friend of India and Statesman Friday January 17th 1879

Tan time we think has come when it is the duty of the Anglo-Indian press to speak without reserve of the Viceroy who has been the instrument of the policy that has involved the nation once more in the crime of an unprovoked war upon Affghanietan. [...] One notices it in the want of clothes in the diminution of the number of cattle in the use of earthen pots for vessels of braes and iron in the absence of the familiar collars and bracelets of silver from the necks and arms of the women. [...] It is indeed difficult for the driest officialdom to remain unmoved while the former owner of several team of oxen with a couple of milch buffaloes or so recoubting to him the history of his losses in the dry year extends his open palms and displays the blisters and callosities wrought by the handle of the hoe in bands accutomed only to grip the plough-tail. [...] The main points of this document were the immediate retort of the exiles the restitution of their immovable property upon proof of ownership their reibursement in cash or kind for losses of movable property suffered at the hands of the Russian administration or of private individuals and the appointment of agents to administer the property of such of the 'refugees as could not return atone [...] Wo are ashamed of our country that can tolerate the effeminate dissipate eandyiem that dreams these dreams in the hills and tells us that the British Empire requires the protection of the Turk the protection of the bloody Yar Mahound and now the protection of those respectable scoundrels at Merv.