Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-05-07

SUhhEN DEk IT'D RESSIA.
A Growing Belief i'm England That
Gladstone Has Yielded Every Point
ment. and a Demand for It's over.
tflrOw-PrObable Alienation Of Italy
on Account of EnSland's COwartlly
LONDON. May THE opinion is gaining
ground here and in Europe that the govern
ment's arrangement is, in a word, a complete
surrender to Russia of all the points she has de-
manded. Though the more moderate of the
conservatives condemn Lord Randall Church
Ills endeavors to oppose the war credit, the
probability of a defeat for the government is
talked Of in many quarters.
CALLING FOR THE OUSTING OF GLADSTONE
The Morning Post agrees with Lord Churchill
about the urgent need of ousting the ministry,
and says: Eight Independent members might
have turned GladstOnes S majority of II into a
minority. After the terrible events of the paSt
week will they be forthcoming?'
ENGLAND's PRESTIGE ExTINGUIsHED.
The Standard says that the dignity and
powers of Russia and England were embodied
in Gen Komaroff and Sir Peter Lumsden. and
that NJ. de Giers will take care that Russian
prestige in the person of Gen. komarotf shall
not be dimmed, while the English ministry has
already decided that in the person of Lumsden
the prestige of England is to be eXtinguished.
"a further misfortune says the iXanddrd, "is
that we are by no means assured that even for
the hour the necessity ofusing force has passed"
The Neue Freie Presse, of Vienna, predicts
that Italy will become estranged from Eng
land by the latter's indecision Of policy and at
titude.
An unconf1rmed rumor is current that the
Indian departments have en.Ordered to cease
their war preparations.
go st. Petersburg or to London to assist in the
delimitation of the frontier
A dispatch from Tirpul, dated May Sd, says:
The floods due to the bursting of q dam north of
Sarakhs seriously impede the route to Merv.
The positions of Kilanaur and Pentdeh COM
Kila and Kilanan. Robat Pass has no special
strategetic Importance. 1t is necessary to avoid
checking in any way the confidence which Sir
and to avoid lessening his influence over them
On Tuesday the Boundary Mission will march
few miles up the valley.
LUMsDEN's RESIGNATION.
Dispatches from India renew the statement
that Sir Peter Lumsden has resigned his post as
British commissioner on the international
coNDExNING THE CONSERVATIVES COURSE.
The ZTnes, commenting on the attitude Of the
as f
Lord Randolph Churchill was not Justified in
proposing to refuse supplies to the government
The approaching election will give the cOnser-
vatives ample opportunity to arraign the gov
ernment at the bar of public opinion, the Times
stronger II it G abstains rom crude and estrava
CANT proposals. "The government have mis-
managed the Afghan business" the article con-
doiph ChurchilIs giving advice which shows
that the opposition Is incapable Of doing better"
THE sARIKH TURcoMANs WON OVER By
RUSSIA.
TEHERAN, PERSIA, May 7.-Advices from
Sarikh state that small force Of Russians.
with four guns, now occupies PenJdeh. The
same advices contain the statement that the
Russians have completely won over the Sarikh
Turcomans. The telegraph line is now COM
pleted to point 100 miles beyond Askadad
There is an apparent 1ull in the Russian prepa-
rations for war; The Afghan troops along the
Bala Murghab not having received any pay for
q long time, are greatly demoralixed.
KOMARoFF ORGANIZING HIS CONoUEsTa
ODESSA, May Tit is reported here that Gen.
KOnaro6 has instituted q municipal adminis-
tratiOn under his own supervision at Pull
Khristi and Puli-Khatun.
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