The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-05-13

cmptory, and threatened to resign his
post unless it was complied with IL was
rs result OF this coercive step that Mr..
Gladstone reluctantly advised the queen
TO call ont the army reserve and The mil
itia. Lord Dufferin Immediately began
ordering troops forward to the frontier
stations at Rawal Pindi and Quettah, and
held important conferences with, the
Ameer OF Afghanistan Mt the former
place, with many native princes, the re.
suit of which has apparently been to make
sure Of their allegiance against Russia.
Lord Durerin counselled the home gov
ernment on receipt of the news of the
capture of Pen jdeh by Komarof, to Or
der nm advance into Afghan territory at
once. In the crisis he evidently had the
master mind among the British states
men.
ucn. Roberts Is popularly regarded as
the best lighting general of the Anglo-In-
dian armies He has distinguished him
self repeatedly in the field and received
well meritcd honor at home.
General Lumsden was appointed by the
British government early in 1884 as the
Commissioner on their part to proceed to
Afghanistan and meet Russian Com
missioner for the purpose of delimiting
the frontier by mutual consent. He is a
veteran in the service and wears medals
for bravery and valuable public services
Gen. Komaroff is over fifty and hard
fighter. He has seen much arduous sery-
ice in the many Aslatic wars by which
the eagles of Russia have been brought
to the position from which they now men
ace the British empire in India. In the
expedition which captured Merv he dis
tinguished himself He had been gov.
ernor of Askabad for SOME time prior to
that event, which occurred in 1882, and it
was under his orders that the dashing
Major Alikhanoh, whose name occurs
quite often of late in the cable dispatches,
pushed forward and brought the Mervis
to terms. 1t was on February 8, 1882. that
the four chiefs and 81 notables OF Merv
gathered in General Komaroff's drawing
room at Askabad, and took the oath of
allegiance to the White Gar. Under the
orders Of General Komaroff, Merv was
promptly fortified after the European
fashion and is to-day the base Of the new
Russian advance southwark. AS re-
ward for this service he received the Or
der of the White Eagle, and his district
(Askabad) was raised to the rank of q
he himself was made governor general
This is the man who fired the first shot ut
Ak Tepe recently and the Car promptly
decorated him sfresh for the gallant as
sanlt upon and capture Of that place. In
this move II he was not acting under Or
derB from st. Petersburg 1t seems strange
that his success should have received the
recognition 1t did.
The Russian leader to whom all eyes are
turned ms the man most likely TO COM
mand the Cars armies is Con. Kouropat-
kin. He figured conspicuously in the
Turco-R Russian war under the late Skobo-
lef. and since the latter's death this
dashlng man has been popularly regarded
Ia the light OF his successor.
With the geographical. military and
personal data above laid before our
readers. the general conditions Of the
great struggle now opening between Rus
sia and Great Britain will, we think, be
tolerably clear. We have drawn upon
various standard authorities for the facts
comprised in this article, and believe its
statements may be fully accepted as cor
rect so far as they 20. To aid the reader
still further in appreciating the lay of the
land, as exhibited on the map, and the
relative difficulties Of the British and
Russian advance toward Herat, we ap.
pend table OF distances between the diff
ferent points