The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-05-23 00:00:00

A WINDFALL!

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ENGLAND, RU',_ziA, AND
AFG-KA.NISTAN. 7.?
PEtESENT FROM TETE cZAB, TO iItrERAL

KOMAROFF.

Teegrams from St. Petersburg, dated. *May 16th
saiu : The Emperor has addressed an autograph
letter to General Komarogt accompanying the gift of
a auld. sseepdofhonowc,,thehilt smi..scabbard 015
which
..-arelet with.ditrnOnds: His Majesty. \warmly
acknowledges whatthcletter deserits as the General's
exc'ellent military measures white commanding the ,
detachment on the Mnrghab, the prudence and rrn
nese with which fie dealt with the Afghans, and the.
galkntry which 'ke displayed during the -engagement
at Dash Kepri. The Emperor has also conferred a.
rid sword of honour upon Colonel Zakrejevski as -a
re-ward for •Iwarery. The German St.. Poq-sintr9
Ciazette states that it has been deeided to:con.tinne the
Transcaspian railway within the neat twe years
through Bokhara as far as Samarkand.. A. report
from the Russian consul at Istrabad announces that
a Moscow manufacturer ripened a branch at Earfrush
last March for the sale of Russian tuatiafactured
roods.

A Paris correspondent, writing on Monday, says:
The situation between England and Russia continues
to be watched with great interest here. Some of the
telegrams published in the Debats of late presage
further difficulties, but it is curious to note that in
the same paper appears to day another highly
optimistic article above the well known signature of
M. Lernoinne. The alleged hitch in the negotiations
is not considered by M. Lemoinne as perilous for the
prospects of peace, nor does he (like many of his
countrymen) indulge in flouts and sneers over the
9 pparent recoil of England before Muscovite exactions.
Ile augurs great things from the coalition of Liberals
and Conservatives, and sees in the sudden change of
front of Lord Salisbury a hopeful sign of peace.
Ile says: That which would prove, if needful, the
determination of England to avoid a rupture is the
attitude and language adopted by the Opposition and
its head, Lord Salisbury. In England, as elsewhere,
politicians, when not in power, commit indiseretions
of speech which they would not allow themselves to
utter were they speaking in an offizial capacity. We
may suppose that Lord Salisbury is becoming more
reserved because he is drawing nearer to the respon-
sibility of power. In the last sitting of the House of
Lords he lent his aid to the Government on the Elec-
toral Reform Bill, and it was this rather irregular
proceeding that prevented a longer debate on the
measure. On the important question now in dispute,
which has been on the point of causing a wellnigh
universal war to break out, the two ruling powers
in England seem to have suddenly changed
their system and their ground. They have
come to the conclusion that England should defend
her Indian Empire in India itself rather than on the
Russian frontier of Afghanistan. That is where she
should entrench herself and await attack if it is one
day to come. Lord Salisbury, the head of the party
most hostile to Russia, is the first to declare that
England cannot and should not take the responsibi-
lity of disputes that may break out between barbarian
tribes and the troops that guard the Russian frontier.
Such a statement is a disavowal of all the commotion
that has been raised of late _ The English
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now say that it is better to allow the Russians to cross
Afghanistan, leaving remnants of their army on the
way, and thus to arrive weakened and decimated
before uninjured fortifications, fresh troops, and a
country ready for resistance.
The Francais, which is supposed to be patronised
by the Duc de Broglie, quotes in a leading article
to-night an extract from a private letter received from
Germany, in which some remarks made by the
Emperor William on the Anglo-Russian difficulty are
a prominent feature. The Emperor, in reply to his
interlocutor, who, it is said, was one of his veteran
Generals. stated that he had had all the trouble in
the world to preserve peace between England and
Russia. The Emperor also made some disparaging
remarks on the Russian army.

A telegram from Berlin on Tuesday says: Most of
this morning's papers comment on the publication of
the last Blue-book on affairs on the Afghan frontier.
Al! agree in remarking that the new publication is a
fresh blow to British prestige. A Vienna corre-
spondent writes: I understand that the Russian
forces encamped in Georgia between the Caucasus and
the mountains have left for the Afghan frontier.
Reuters News, dated Simla, May 19, says: It has now
been decided that the three months' stores collected
by the Army Corps recently formed in view of the
contingency of an Anglo-Russian war shall be per-
manently stocked at Quetta. The Indian Govern-
ment has under consideration the question of making
provision for a larger employment in the army of
natives of good position.

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