Sir Francis Younghusband's Views. Colonel Sir Francis Younghusband, late President of the Royal Geographical Society, who has had long experience of the Northern borderland of India as traveller, soldier and diplomatist, in a statement to a representative of The Times last night, said It has always been supposed that Alexander, in his invasion of India, followed the Asmar Valley and also probably went through Swat. But the question of the exact route has always beeu hazy. All over that part.of india, and even as far as the lIlunza country, traditions of Alexander's invasion have prevailed down to the present day. Sir Aurel Stein's identi- fication is of great military. as well as archaeo- logical interest, and filLs up an important gap in our knowledge of the Mlacedonian marc4. Great importance also attaches to the Buddhistic remains Sir Atarel Stein has found on the Torwal. It has been known generallv y for many }ears that, given settled conditions, the Frontier lands would be likely to yield a rich harvest of Buddhist.ic remains to the archamological explorer. During the Chitral eampaign of 30 vears ago, when the engineers were road-m t the Malakand Pass into Swat, they camne aeros evidences of an ancient road made in Buaddist times, as well as maany artistic remains of the period. Tt is most itting that these discoveries should have been made by Sir Aurel Stein whose excavations in Chinese Turkestan have added so substantially to human knowledge. He is the most Indefatigable of explorers, very methodical, very persevering, and very in- dustrious. SIR FRANCIS YOUNGRUSBANDS VIEWS.