The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-05-16
OLD WORLD NEWS.
NEWS BY THE CABLE.
The quarrel nstwesn Euglapd and Russia
!. sun In statu auo-parllamsntary Do
Fii{ ibgs-sflnlster Phelps Reception.
General Foreign News Notes.

LONDON, May 15.-The Standard in al
editorial says: $40 speak plainly, th'
drift Of the Anglo Russian agreemen
which was sent to St. Petersburg for ap
| proyal, is found to be wholly unacceptable
Ito The Czar's ministers. Though MOI
formally rejected, ishas beenso thorough.
condemned in detail that practically 1t hal
ceased to be an agreement There i
something vastly more serious than 4
hitch in the proceedings. We are back
| in February again, the situation being
only altered to our disadvantage
The Times Calcutta correspondent de.
nies that there has been . ssoppage o.
military preparations in India. He says
oil rnmors to that effect are untrue.
4 Russia Is annoyed at the agreement be-
tween China and Japan to organize a sys-
TEN OF Gems d armes in Corea under
European officers,
A ST. Petersburg dispatch says the
Nopoe Ireyma has Q telegram from Telar,
in trans,Caucapsia, reporting that the
Georgian militia Is going TO the Afghan
frontier. The principal journals still ad-
vocate conterminous frontier for Eng
laud and Russia.
\ The Moscow Gazette says that Russia's
resolute attitude has brought the British
Cabinet to confess it's mistakes and to
hasten to rectify them. -,
The Noroe preynid reviews the discus
siop;of the question Of an Anglo tdssian
alliance, with Herat belonging to i,ussia.
The Standard believes that Russia def,
nitelys declines to sanction the proposals
regarding the "A ighan frontier justsubmit-
ted forapproyal by England.
The Official Messenger to-day publishes
the report from General Romarofi to the
effect that the Saiiks are opposed 10 the
new frontier line proposed BY England,
claimingthatit IL is an infringement upon
their rights and gives the best land in the
disputed territory 10 the lAighans.
a dispatch from st. Petersburg to the
Paris Journal Des Debuts, states that Russia
has entirely rejected the British proposals..
The same dispatch also ststes that Russia
will demand the right 10 have an acknowl-
edged Russian representative at Cabul,
the Capital of Afghanistan.
; FRENCH diplomats think this latter det
mand, Il made, will prove more serious
than any frnniier question.
fThe Pal Nall Gasetis this afternoon
says it 10 untrue that Russia has either
accepted or rejected the English proposals
regarding the Afghan frontier arrange
ment. The Gdsetie declares there is no
serious hitch In the negotiations, although
1t is possible the few points which remain
open may be postpone The conclusion OF
tha agreement for a fsw days.
/ The Globe this afternoon states that
demanded a definite pledge fyom
Russia to respect the rev RSsso.l ,tghan
frontier pndes any circumstance, and to
renew the assurance that Afganistan was
outside the Russian sphere. Russia re-
fused to accede to this request of. England
and retaliated by also demanding further
lord Edmund Fitzmanrice, Under For
eign Secretary, anHoancsd id the House
Of Commons this afternoon that Russia
hadnat yet sent any answer 10 the English
q I. i..t ..3S..-
The Afghan Frontier.
81. Pnrsnsnuas, May i5.-A dispatch
has been received at theWar office from
General komsre8, commaader oithe Rus.
lianS iorees on the Afghan frontier, in
which lie atates that the sariks are bitter
ly!opposed to the new frontier line, now
4 s,hdar ,d;screo;on hv tha Ruee;an anil Emo