For a long time past there has been fear in Calcutta that the Government would remove the famous Imperial Library to Delhi, but it ig now stated in reliable circles that there is no such intention. This denial has been prompted by the amour that the change had been definitely settled, but it now appears that confusion had been made In some quarters between the small library belonging to the Imperial Records Department and the Imperial Library. It has been decided by the Government to remove the Imperial Kecorls Department Delhi anit they now are in process of removing some of the records, The Inter records, from about the year 1899 up to the present time, already are at Delhi. As for the earlier records, owing to some of them being ina dilapidated state, they require sorting and a mea sore of repairs before they are a fit state for removal. It will take some years before the removal of the entire department is completed. 'A portion of the library belonging to the Imperial Records Department also has been removed and the rest of it is in process of removal, Afghan Aims At the present moment there is a strong campaign in the Afghan press, urging the feed of educating the public regarding the importance }of conscription. The leading Afghan paper, "Ittihad-i-Mashraci," chiefly is responsible for the campaign. In a recent issue the pay states:—"The entire nation should be given military training and even women should be taught the use of arms in their houses; but, at a whole nation cannot undergo train-ting at once, it hus been arranged that eve ald haven couple of by tures.""
The paper also "soles a Mostem Journal of Calcutta, the "Habulul-Matin," which indicates that Indian Moslems are watching the Afghan movement for conscription with sympathy. The ""Habul-ul-Matin"" also deciares that the future ut Afghanistan requires polities! wliances with Persia and Turks, in anier to establish a strong turco in Central Asi
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