The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17
RUSSIA ADVANCES.
The Czar's Troops, to the Number
of Forty-nve Thousand, on the
March to Sarakhs.
Rumors of Another Engagement on
the Fr0ntier-A Cabinet Meeting
Action in Parliament.
THE AFGHAN wAR.


LONDON, April IA. Great excitement
has been caused by the receipt of a dispatch
from Teheran to the effect that news had
been received in that city from Askabad
that Russian troops to the number of $4,000
were on the march to Sarahks. The Gov
| ernment has received official dispatches
fully confirming the report of the Russian
| advance.
1t was reported IN st. Petersburg last
night that the Afghans had made an attack
on the Russian outpoSts.
Instructions have been telegraphed to Sir
Peter Lumsden to transmit to London as
| quickly as possible his report and that of
Captain Yates ON the conflict on the Kushk
River
Sir Peter Lumsden has occupied a strong
position at Tirpul. He is believed now to
be able to prevent the Russians from coup
de main in the direction of Herat. He lost
seventeen camp-followers and fifty mules in
recent snOw-storm. The battle between
the russians and Afghans lasted for an
hour and was of most sanguinary charac-
| ter. The Afghan loss is stated to have been
nine hundred killed.
General Komaroff's explanation is re-
| garded in official circles as being made
quate.
With few exceptions, the press of Lon
don and the provinces, of all shades of po-
litical opinion, attack the tone and ques-
ton the accuracy of Komaroffs state
ment. 1t is supposed that the Rus
sian Minister of War shaped
General Komaroff's kilograms. The
Standard says the Gar has within the last
forty-eight hours telegraphed to Berlin an
loo r,.. 0e Sc To- E.,
Telegraph edtOrialiy remarks: mo dlplo-
matte alliance can now rescue NJ. de Gers
and the Gar of Russia from their fighting
Generals"
| LONDON, April AN. Lessar, in an in
terview yesterday, said that General
Komarotf had simply done his duty and his
Government can not think of either blam-
ing or recalling him. The occurrence of
hostilities, he added was much to be re-
| GREETED. Previously matters were tending
toward speedy settlement.
The Government has ordered the trans
formation of the steamship Oregon into
man-of-war instead of troop ship as was
at first intended. The amount paid for the
| National Line steamer America is said to
have been $250000.
LoNToN, April 14.-All the Ministers
met in council at Gladstone'S official resi-
dence in Downing street at noon yesterday
The Russian version of the causes which
led up to General Komaroff's recent at
tack on the Afghans near Penj-
deb was thoroughly discussed. The
official explanations of the af-
fair were laid before the Ministry, and it
is understood on reliable authority that
they were adjudged entirely unsatisfac-
tory. The council then decided that prep
arations for war should continue, and that
the most vigorous efforts for that end should
be put into operation at once.
IN PARLIAMENT.
LONDON, April 14.-Mr. Gladstone in the
House of Commons yesterday, stated
that the Government, upon the receipt from
Russia of General Komarotf's explanation
of the Penjdeh incident, had telegraphed to
Sir Peter LumSden for information as to the
! correctness of the Russian commanders
| justification OF his conduct in attack
ing the Afghans. Mr.. Glad
stone also announced that the
Government had received full report of
the communications which had passed be-
tween the Earl of Dufferin. British Viceroy
of India, and Abdrtrrahman Khan, the
Ameer of Afghanistan, in the councils
recently held between them at Ramal-
Pindi. These communications the Premier
added. were entirely satisfactory to
the Government. Explaining the delay
| of the Government in reaching a final
decision with Russia Mr.. Gladstone said
the reports of the Russian officers who took
part in the Penjdeh affair and those of the
English who witnessed the engagement dill
| fered so materially in substance and effect
that the Government felt obliged to make
| an independent inquiry. This was pro
ceeding now, and the Government was do
ing everything in its power toward ascer-
| tanning the facts.
MI. Gladstone also stated that General
KOmaTof's report Of the recent battle be-
| tween the Russians and the AfghanS had
| been telegraphed to Sir Peter Lumsden, but
| no reply had as yet been received from the
British Commissioner. Russia had, the
Premier admitted, failed to answer the ma
terial parts Of England's communication
sent on the day of the receipt of the news OF
the battle.
The Earl of Salisbury, leader of the
| Conservative Peers in the House of Lords
last evening asked the Government if
they had learned Of the report that
there was another engagement between
the Russians and Afghans on the
| Afghan frontier yesterday, and if the Gov
ernment knew whether the report was true
4 VI uOt. LdII OIdllNllI6, TOT6lSu mlulSGeI,
answered for the Government that they had
nothing to add to the official statements
| made by Mr.. Gladstone in the House of
| Commons.
| The Marquis of Harrington, Secretary for
| War, in moving a reply to the Queens
message calling out the reserves, stated
that he was unable at present to
speak concerning the military meas
ures under consideration by the Gov
eminent because recent events had
melified the views of the Indian Gov
| eminent concerning the number Of rein
forcements required He hoped to submit
| to the Commons vote of credit next Mon
day. when, pGrhaps, more might be said.
Sir Stafford Northcote, Conservative
| leader in the House of Commons, gave no
tice that his party would not oppose the
| vote of credit.
The House, after rejecting by vote of
| 148 to SO the amendment offered by Mr.
| Henry Labouchere that England at once
eVacuate the S0udan, agreed to reply to the
| Queens message calling out the reserves.