4 JUNE 1842, Page 11
The papers of the day add nothing to the news
from India. It is bad enough, but hardly so bad as it looks. The position of the British at Ghuznee was a subject of anxiety two months ago : the garrison con- sisted of only one battalion of Sepoys, and the wonder is that Colonel Palmer could hold out so long. There is less real loss to the British in i the reverse there, than there is success in the advance of Colonel Pol- lock through the difficult Khyber Pass.
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