There remains no extant version of today’s paper. The excerpt below is taken from the previous day’s edition.

(EDITORIAL) Now that the war is over the axe will fall heavily, in the near future, on the Indian army personnel as well as on the hundreds of men appointed for the duration of war. That cannot be helped however much one may sympathise with them. They will be asked to earn a living elsewhere since with the war’s end they, too, have come to their career’s end. That is the way with all wars and the sad lot of those who contribute their quota to the prosecution of the war effort both in the civil and military spheres. It cannot be said accurately how many are to lose their jobs, but that their numbers will run into several lakhs is certain.

The strength of almost all civil departments had to be greatly augumented owing to the exigencies of war; the overworked railways had to be manned by at least twice their pre-war staff; the Supply Department had had an elephantine increase in size; in fact the war had left nothing untouched without swelling it….

Published in Dawn, September 8th, 2020