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EDITORIAL STAFF OF THE OUTLOOK

REV. LYMAN ABBOTT, D.D., Editor-in-Chief
HAMILTON W. MABIE, L.H.D., Associate Editor

ROBERT D. TOWNSEND, Managing Editor
CHARLES B. SPAHR, Ph.D.

ELBERT F. BALDWIN

REV. AMORY H. Bradford,
MRS. LILLIAN W. BETTS
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garrisoned, but a brave fight was made before it was abandoned. The fall of Fort AliMuzjid gives the tribesmen complete control of the Khyber Pass. This, and the facts that 9763

to secure their friendship by subsidies given in return for their help in keeping open the Khyber Pass. In and near the pass have been three outposts held by British troops, chiefly

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