THE AFGHAM TROUBLE
NATIVE TRUCULENCE. SPECIMEN OF ORIENTAL PLEADING. Preso Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. ALLAHABAD, July 28. Addressing the Afghan Peace Delegates at Rawal Pindi, Sir Hamilton Grant described the war as wanton, crazy, and meaningless, but warned them that a continuance of the war would mean annexation. In reply the president of the Afghan Delegation said that the friendship of Britain to Afghanistan was not so essential as the friendship of Afghanistan to Britain. Although Britain was the moro powerful, there were possibilities of combination open to Afghanistan which would not make British victory easy.—A. and N.Z. Gable,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17690, 30 July 1919, Page 5
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