Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-10-02
FOREIGN NEWS.
ARMY STORES FOR INDIA.

a London GlSpalCn OF TIE Il I'll Says:
It is reported an order has been issued
for the dispatch of ten thousand water
proof sheets and five thousand blankets
to the India army. Field stores are al
SO preparing for immediate issue.
ANOTHER GREAT WAR THREATENED.
London cablegrams of the Doth state:
A dispatch from Calcutta says: When
the British mission was refused passage,
the commandment of Alimusjid told
Major Cavagnari that, but for personal
friendship, he would shoot him on the
spot.n War is believed to be inevitable.
The Calcutta correspondent adds fit be
true that the commandment Of Alimusjid,
in the presence of one of the Ameer's
most trusted servants, threatened to
shoot Major Cavagnari, there can be
little doubt that the threat was in &C
cordance with direct instructions from
the Ameer."
The Times in its leading editorial says:
"This latest news leaves little doubt we
have been commenced already. The
Ameer doubtless intended to make the
breach with England irreparable. Such
will be the effect of his conduct. We
ought to be well able to succeed
in occupying two or three
important points III Afghanistan
before winter, which will go a long way
towards finishing the war. We can
continue it in the spring if the Ameer
is still obdurate. The blow, when given
must be effectual. Even the Daily
Ne1rs favors prompt and vigorous
action. A dispatch from Simla,
in Hindostan, says Gholam Hussein
Khan, who went to Cabul with the
viceroy's letter, has been recalled. A
force under General Roberts has been
dispatched to KORAN valley. A
column numbering 5000 men has been
ordered at Mooltan and 1000 go to
Quetta. Active military preparations
are making at Rawul Plndee.
VOLCANIC ACTIVITY.
Adtices from Ecuador dated Sept.
Goth state that the volcano Colopaxi Is
in a violent state of eruption.
A Naples dispatch of the 25th inst,
says that the volcanic activ-
ity Of Vesuvius continues to increase.
The crest of the cone has given way,
anu q new cone Is lOG1111uS.
HUNGARY PROTESTS.
A Vienna cablegram under date of
the 10Th says that the Hungarian radi-
Gals hold mass meeting at Pesth Sun
day next, to protest against the occupa-
ton of Bosnia. Deputies Helfy and
Simonyi lead the movement. Resolu-
tons are to be submitted declaring that
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to the Hungarian nation; protesting
against the sacrifice of Hungarians'
blood and money against their wishes;
demanding the withdrawal Of troops
from Bosnia, and declaring the inten-
ton 10 organize q movement to petit
ton the Hungarian diet for the i'm
parchment of the Tiszia cabinet.
THE PEACE THAT A CONGRESS MAKES.
The difficulties in Turkey do not APP
pear to grow any less complicated.
From the dispatches of the 9th the fol-
lowing items are eluded to show the
unsettled condition of that peace which
a congress was supposed to effect. The
Seryian government, at the request Of
the Mohammedan chief, will receive
women and children fleeing from the
besieoed towns in the northeast Of BOs-
MIA. Many hundred Mohammedan
families have already arrived in Servia.
The Porte, to-day, received a telegram
from the Prince of Montenegro, insist
ing upon prompt surrender of the
territory coded to that country by the
treaty of Berlin.
It is reported that bands are organized
in Dobrudscha to resist the Roumanlan
occupation, and that they have plenty
of arms and ammunition.
ANOTHER COMPLICATION FOR THE ENGLISH.
A Calcutta cablegram of the 22nd
saws: An officer of the Ameer of
Afghanistan at Alimusjid has refused to
allow the British mission to Cabul to 60
through the Khyber Pass, and crowned
the heights which commanded the pass
with his followers. After three
hours interview with the officer, In
which he warned him that his act
would be regarded as the act of the
Ameer himself, Maj Cavagnari, COM
handing the advance escort Of the
mission, returned to Jamrood, and the
mission has withdrawn to PeshaWaun.
IMPORTANCE OF THE ABOVE.
A special from Calcutta says the
main body of the mission to Cabul had
proceeded as far as Jamrood Its re-
turn thence was Geographically ordered
by the Viceroy. The mission will now
be withdrawn. 1t is fully recognized that
the Ameer of Afghanistan is merely
the puppet of Russia. The question
will consequently cease to be treated
from an Indian standpoint, and become
L L Il g..
eign politics. The immediate object of
the Viceroy is to make it clearly under
stood that he has no quarrel with the
Afghanistan people. and to win over all
the border tribes Maj. Cavagnari re-
peatedly warned the Afghanistan off
Ger that the Ameer would be held
responsible The officer, in the
presence Of two Indian Princes
attached to the mission, expressed his
unfinching determination to forcibly
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