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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3944, 19 August 1881, Page 2

The victory gained by Ayoub Khatf^gaH it is believed, lead to a grave rupture in the relations between Great Britain and Afghanistan. In the House of' Commons on July 29, Mr Gladstone admitted the importance of the engagement as affecting Kandahar, but stated that there was a stroug Anglo-Indian army in the proximity of that city. Ayonb Khan's proposal of peace, based on the redistribution *of territory was a feint.

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