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Settle Disputes London, July 28.
The Earl of Birkenhead, Secretary of State for, India, speaking Lords this evening, said that Anglo-Afghan relations were very friendly.
He emphasized that the concern of Great Britain and India in Afghanistan was not less now than it was in 1885 or 1907, wien the Anglo-Russian Agreement was made, or in 1921, when the Anglo-Afghan Treaty was signed.
He declared that if British interests in Afghanistan were ever seriously threatened she would not find herself without means of safeguard ing them.
Referring to the disturbances between Hindus and Moslems in India, the Earl of Birkenhead said that influential men among them would be well advised if by com-Posing their ferences they enabled well-wishers of India to submit a plausible case for the acceleraof a statutory date for the ion of the constitution.—Reuter,
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