Sri Aurobindo
Bande Mataram
Calcutta, May 30th, 1907
Part Four. Bande Mataram under the Editorship of of Sri Aurobindo (28 May – 22 December 1907)
A Lost Opportunity
The London correspondent of the Bengalee has the following: – “It is a sign of the times that one of the yellow evening papers in recording the news of the arrest of Sir George Arbuthnot went on to assure its readers that Sir George has the entire sympathy of the financial community in London and that his arrest at the suite of a ‘native’ was directly to be attributed to the hostility towards Englishmen engendered by Bengali Babus.”
The Englishman must be biting its fingers with mortification at not having been first in the field with this brilliant idea.
If it had only thought of sending its special correspondent to Madras at the time, we might not have had to wait for a London evening 
paper to shed the light of this brilliant and illumining idea on the Arbuthnot case.
We wonder what our friends of Madras will think of this “entire sympathy of the financial community in London” for the Englishman of finance whom they so implicitly trusted and by whom they were so shamefully betrayed.
Such sympathy is a sign of the times indeed.
This work was not included in SABCL, vol.1 and it was not compared with other editions.