Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-24
WILD ALARM IN ENGLAND.
WAR IN INDIA AGAIN BECOMES
IMMINENT.

Armies 10000 to. 30 900 Strong Being
Modified at the Principal Points of
Strategic AdYantage-LOrd FItzmaur-
ice Admits in the Commons that Every
thing Hinges on Russia's WOrd-Wild
Excitement Among the Brokers.
LONDON, March 23.-The Post under
stands that the Russian officers on fur
Tough have been ordered to rejoin their
regiments.
There are renewed statements to the
effect that Russia and the Porte are negO-
tiating for neutrality treaty in the event
Of war between England and Russia.
Russia is devoting large portion of
her recent loans to improving her naval
strength. Ten men-Of-war are being con-
structed: five of thom are of the largest
type of war ships and three are plated
cruisers and two torpedo rams.
BRITISH MOBILIZATION IN INDIA,
At Calcutta it is reported that orders
were received from England SATURDAY. to
concentrate from 10000 to 10000 men at
Quettah and Allanabad. Orders were is
sued Saturday to mobilize two army corps
aggregating $4,000 men, with two strong
divisions as reserve. 1t is intended to
send $4,000 men to Pishin while the
weather is cool. Gen. Roberts will have
command and the Duke of Cohnaught
and Gen. MacPhersOn will act as divi-
sional Generals. There is great enthu-
slasm among the Sikhs, and recruits are
coming forward by hundreds, 1t is be-
lleYed that England will send $4,000 as a
permanent increase to the Indian gar
risOns-
ON RUSSIA'S WORD.
Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice, Under For
elgn secretary, replying. in the House of
Commons this evening. to a question put
by Sir Henry DrummOnd Wolff, COnserVa-
tive, sAid that the AngIo-Russian agree
ment in regard to the Russo-A fghan from
tier was not recorded in a formal docu-
ment. MIR. Wolff then asked: ''Does
the question Of peace or war depend on
the verbal assurance of Russia? ?" To this
the Under Foreign Secretary did not re-
ply, whereup0n the Conservatives cheered
ironically.
Earl Granville, in the House of Lords,
SAID that 1t was desirable that the govern
ment, while firmly adheriI to the policy
which England's obligations required,
should not omit any chance of arriving at
friendly agreement with Russia.
WILD ALARM ON THE EXCHANGE.
The alarm over the prospect of war with
RUSSIA has been renewed on the stock eX-
change, owing to the reported prepara-
tlons IN India to send troops to Herat.
Russian stocks have dropped IL at Ber-
I'm. There are still buyers. Some Eng
lish houses also buy, believing that the
display in India is only clustered, de-
signed to cOnciliate the war section of
the Liberal party,
EVERY REGIMENT TO BE STRENGTHENED.
Advices from Calcutta state that the
force which is to be sent 10 Ouetta con-
sists Of three divisions drawn from three
presidencies and a reserve body consist
ing OF ll,000 men fully equipped to be
drawn from the troops at Rawalpinde.
1t is proposed to add 200 men to every
infantry regiment in India and one squad
ron to every cavalry regiment.
The SCet, the Russian military organ,
says that England is ready to give Penj-
den, TaTmenas and Buleh to Russia. but |
wishes to keep Herat at any price, in or
der TO make a road from the Caspian Sea
to India.