New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-10
VOL. XIV. NO l4,O56.
THE NEWS IN LONDON
RUSSIA SCORING EVERY POINT

x,,oV Nav 9-NOt till to-day n"'0 WV
lit ,oen allowed to know what the arpl'ra'iOn
.rroomont with Russia really meant. Mr 0iau-
.,one announced it to the House OF Coihinon' y"
,,ondos in terms so ambiguous that Sir StahOro
Sortbcote Immediately asked what was the precise
noipt to be referred to the arbitrator There was o
answer from MIR. Gladstone.
The answer now arrives from st. Petersours
Russia evidently thinks that it is for her interest,"
make known the terms of settlement wh'ch MI
Gladstone Thought it for his interest to conceai "'
,orr 10 nossible. The Car calmly announces tha'
coneral Konarof acted in entire accordance Win
his instructions, and that he was not torOiuu0h "
advance. but only forbidden to occupy PenJoen'
Russia. therefore, takes upon herself the ent'ie re
sponsibty for General KDmarots action DuV Siu'0
the British Cabinet thinks that the Russian Oao-
met ought according to the agreement 10 nave
ordered General KomarOf to abstain from all at
tack Russia is willing to submit the Interpretation
of the agreement to an arbitrator. In the meantime
negotiations respecting the frontier have been re-
sunod The Russians remain in possession OF the
territory occupied pending delmitatlon.
A DIPLOMATIC COMEDY.
The ST. Petersburg and Moscow papers all the
week have been saying that arbitration IS a COM
adv We now see who looks comic to them NJ
Katkoff remarks in The MoscOw Gazette that arol'ra
+;on s simply respectable means of closing the IN
cdent To which Russia assented in order TO una an
hororab,e issue for Mr. Gladstone cut Of his dill
entities in consideration of his feelings ana lOrner
policy toward Russia.
The Continental press, though puzzled to know
what arbitration meant, took similar vlew' Dor-
lin and Paris agreed that England had gwen way
Vienna, the one European capital except perhaps
Rome. which hitherto had shown spirit friendly
70 England. regarded this agreement as surrender
THE FEELING IN ENGLAND.
Everybody reioices over the prospect OF peace
Few seem to regret that it has been ootaiheu oy
what they regard as humiliation for England lhe
feeling in England. at first one OF perpieAl'y'
daily hardening into hostility and anxiety about
The Intimate result of peace obtained in this slngu-
lar manner.
Lord Randolph Churchill at once struck the Key
note for his own party denouncinG the action Oh the
Ministry az a base and cOwardly surrender. Others
employ less violent cpithets, but dislike the policy
adopted. the Radicals and purely Ministerial Lib
erals excepted.
Russia in fact scores every point IN the game
While pretending to negotiate she occupies the de-
bated territory. Plelgng herself on March l6 not
90 advance and declaring that she had ordered her
Generals to avoid conflict she let loose General
Komaroa and slaughtered the Afghans. Required
To apologlze she refused Asked to arbitrae on the
Penideh incidents, lie has consented to refer not
the Penjdeh incident but the Interpretation Of the
agreement.
Such reference can have no practical result. IL
cannot deprive her of foot of territory nor dis
tnrb the immense prestige she has won in Asia and
also in Europe She refuses to pledge herself not to
advance to Herat, or beyond the frontier now to be
drawn almost exactly on NJ. Lessars line.
TRIUMPH woN BY PERFlDY.
No wonder there is Iismay in India, and disgust
in England. The recall of Sir Peter Lumsden,
though probably not demanded by Russia, is sure
TO be considered in Asia more visible token of
Russian triumph 1t is not less triumph because
won by nagrant perfdy, nor is immediate peace yet
quite certain or permanent peace probable.
What England gains is a repreve. What Russia
gains besides everything else time to complete the
railways to the frontier