The Friend of India and Statesman Tuesday May 27th 1879

The stook of graio almost exhausted ; the imports reaching the counloy in utterly inadequate (inanities ; the Cashmere officials even at the present arise entirely indifferent to the fate of the Mahomedan population ; the mortality witi be counted by thousands during the ensuing four months Wen the British Government itself takes over the whole matter of famine relief in Cashmere if already it [...] He strikes the key-note by remarking that " the simple anouncment that an exceptionally large addition to the indebtedness of Iudia is to be accotnpanied not by an increase but by a remission of taxation is sufficient to show the extreme gravity of the financial situation in India." By a "remission of taxation" he refers to the reductions of the cotton"470 The Friend of India and Statesman. [...] It will perhaps be said determined resistance to the police the result of which is that Dowlut that the whole of the famine fund has not been devoted to this Rao and four others were killed several wounded and four made purpose and that a portion of it is to be devoted to the partial prisoners and booty to the extent of a lakh of rupees captured. [...] But whatever Creaking the neck of this miniature insurrection against authority conclusion may be adopted as to the preolse manner in which the The attack of the police resulted in the complete dispersion of the money which was intended to create a famine fund has been band of dacoite and it has been ascertained that the leader for spent there can be no question that not a fraction of the new [...] The panic the want of success that has hitherto attende the efforts of the nAne-.1oss.prevalled all along the line of railway and which has been police to apprehend the bands of dacoite no v infesting several inducing the peopre to send in their valuables to-Bombay will now -of the districts in the Deccan.