There remain no extant copies of the paper on this day. The following excerpt is taken from the previous day’s edition.

(EDITORIAL)…[T]he Secretary of State for India has declared: “The Government of India have assured me that they are anxious to accord to correspondents of reputable newspapers and news agencies overseas that greatest possible measure of freedom to transmit news and views of the main situation in India.”

…[N]o one disputes the primary right of the Government to withhold information of vital value to the enemy during the course of a war. The recent decision of five foreign correspondents to shut down their news services rather than submit to the vagaries of India censors has, however, stressed an aspect of censorship in India which Mr. Amery has tried to evade. Nobody will be able to make the British public believe that … such well-known London papers … are so irresponsible or inexperienced as to give away military secrets to the enemy through their messages. The disturbing conclusion cannot be avoided that what is unpalatable to the censors is not only the divulging of information of military value to the enemy but any news on which adverse criticism and comment on the operations can be based.

Published in Dawn, June 16th, 2019