The Friend of India and Statesman Friday October 31st 1879

The Future of Afghanistan The Afghan Problem the Press Rules" Afghan Affairs IAD1188— idisCELLAnsonThe Press 'Commissioner Is it a hoax ? Annesatlon er Withdrawal The Khyber Road to Cabal The Kew Afghan Policy Vernacular Languages Drifting with the Stream A Loyal Chief The Tories and theLand DollasTIO OCCURRENCES bTES OF THE WEST.. [...] The fact of his presence there is somewhat discreditable to the journal Ile represents and disgraceful to the Government which in glaring breach of its own published orders and in contempt of the general Press and of public opinion allowed him to accompany the force. [...] We have the authority of the Press Commissioner for the statement that no special concession has been made to the Pioneer as regards correspondents in the field and of course the correspondent at Cabral if he still continues to act must be acting under the new rules. [...] The fact that the highest officers of State at Cabal were partners in the plot against us and the execution the other day of the Kama of Cobol for being a party to the death of one Envoy are more than sufficient proof that the massacre was neither the fruit of Russian intrigue nor of regimental mutiny but of the deliberate determination of the Afghans not to tolerate among them the preseuce of [...] lE it be granted that the farmer s profits must take precedence of those of the owner of the soil it follows that the two are related to each other in pretrisely the same way as the holders of pal:dormice shares to those of ordinary stook in any commercial company.