Again a commission is about to sit on the heights of Simla.

The commissioners will enjoy feasts and dances and drink brandy which will cost poor natives lakhs of rupees, and afterwards they will devise means to develop the trade in quinine or other drugs.
The Ranjpur _Vartabaha_ writes that in the local charitable dispensary a surgical operation was performed on a patient who died in two hours, and that a similar operation on a pregnant woman resulted in her death.

It adds, with delicate sarcasm, that "the Chief Medical Officer should get his salary increased." The idea that Englishmen deliberately want to depopulate India is one that is sedulously propagated.

Thus the _Jhang Sial_ jeers at British "generosity" which has "converted India, one of the richest countries in the world, into the land of the starving," and British "wisdom" for wishing to "starve out the natives and reign over empty brick and mortar buildings." The _Akash_ (Delhi), referring to the pension granted to the widow of Sir W.Curzon Wyllie, asks whether "the English can hold up their heads after this.

Even their widows are fed by India.