The following is from the "Times of India'
?:—In the obituary notice of that fine old veteran, Sir George Knox, a considerable amount of emphasis was laid on the fact that he only took one daly's leave and that was more by accident than design. With this notable example before us it is pertinent to ask whether the abstinence from leave to which one is entitled, is to be counted as righteousness or various petitions it is pleaded as a mark of merit petition has taken little or no leave. But is it a matter of credit or of folly? In the case of British officers the brain gets jaded and the blood becomes thin after a three years' spell in the East; 2 rest in the vigorous climate of Europe, especially of the British Isles, is essential for the reeuperation of body and brain. But apart from this, it is surely good to keep in touch with relatives and friends in the Old Country, and to replenish one's stock ideas. In most cases it is not the want of desire to go home Itt the cost of the passages which is ithe great deterrent. India is no longer a cheap country in which to live, and year by year it is increasingly difficult for the British officer to save enough to pay for his own passage, let-alone that of his wife and children. The recent announcement, therefore, of the Premier 'a his speech on India that the ques-
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