Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-04-27
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WAR UNAVOIDABLE
The Ambitious Russian Gensral
0'Brutschsf
And His Increasing Influence Over
the Gar
Very Likely to Soon Prscipitats
War on England.
A Significant Conversation War
Preparations.

dispatch to-day conveys this information:
The Emperor passed four hours yesterday
with General o BrutacheH, chiefofstaff, and
several engineer officers, studying war maps
Of the Afghan frontier. General 0'Bsut-
schef regards war as inevitable. He urges
immediate mobilization, and that q mo-
ment should not be lost in pushing on to
Herat and Candahar.
General 0'Brutschefs increasing inhu-
snee over the Car is believed here to be
very significant. OBrutschef is q man of
the Skobelof type. He is only forty-two
years old, full Of energy and ambition. He
said to the Car:
Now is the moment, sire, for Russia to
strike. Lumsden's retreat has utterly de-
stroyed Englsnd's prestige among the At
CHAINS; who, | can assure Your Majesty, are
ready TO revolt against the Amer. Besides,
Persia is prepared secretly to help rs, and
will do so the moment we strike the first
blow. All these advantages will be lost BY
delay"
The Car replied: "You are too hssty,
General. Russia's manifest destiny is too
strong to be wrecked BY any human agency.
But l still hope war may be avoided. But,
come what will, l never shall consent to
give up Penjdeh nor the Zul6kar pass"
The above conversation took place in
the Winter Palace, in the room near the
famous Nicholas Hall, which is o filled
with small tables upon which are piled
hundreds of maps, plans and railway
schemes about Central Asia
The Gar is convinced that the i~mprovised
cruisers of the Alabama type and the vigor-
Gus application Of torpedo warfare, will
transfer E~Dglands monopoly OF the carry
ing trade to other nations.
Russia VIII Not Have Mediation.
The Paris Yoltaire states that over q
hundred Russian students in Paris belong.
ing to the army, have been ordered home
BY the Russian government.
A Paris special to the Exchange Tele
graph Company states that the French For
eigu Office has received an intimstiou that
Russia will not accept any terms OF foreign
mediation, even if offered.
War preparations at Moscow are being
FASTENED on with the greatest activity.
Large bodies of troops are daily leaving for
the South. Heavy supplies of artillery and
commissariat stores are being sent to Tag
anrog for transportation to Batoum n
other fortified places On the Black Sea.
Cossacks of the Don, Koban and Serek, al
together over eighty thousand men, have
received orders to hold themselves ready to
move at a moments notice. Thirty five
thousand troops have already been concen.
rated near Asksbad. In Moscow war is
eagerly hoped for.
GOurko for erin Chief.
General Gourko, the Governor General of
Poland, has been ordered by the Car to
prepare Immediately a detailed memoir
giving q detailed plan of campaign in
A~fghanistsn. 1t is believed here that Gen
eral Gourko, in the event of war, will be
placed in supreme command of the armies
operating against India. There are now
10000 Russian troops in Poland. OF these
10000 are under orders for immediate
movement to Odessa. This proves that
Russia has no cause to fear any hostility
for Austria. The feeling among the Poles
is one of utter indifference. War or no war,
they are too weak to dream of revolt, and
the Russian garrison can be safely reduced
to 4 5000 men.
Workmen at Croustadt are busy night
and day loading all the Whitehead torpedoes
in the arsenal. Orders have been given
that the moment hostilities begin stationary
torpedoes shall be placed outside all Rus
sian ports on the Baltic. The ironclsds Ad-
miral Greig, Due d Edinbourg and Krem-
lin and the monitors Typhon, Latnick and
Bronenossets have already completed their
armaments and are ready for immediate &C.
ton.
How Peace Might be Patched Up.
A St. Petersburg special dispatch to the
Standard says that negotiations continue
between the Russian and British govern
meuts. The frontier question presents no
serious difficulty, but the Penjdeh affair de-
LAYS the meeting of the Boundary Commits
sion, headed by N. Lesser for Russia and
Sir Peter Lumsden for Great Britain. Rus
STA, says the dispatch, is willing to cede
Zul6car in return for Penldeh. That &C
~complished, the Boundary Commission could
probably arrange for q withdrawal OF both
Russian and Afghan troops from the dis
puted zones. This solution of existing
difficulty, it is asserted however, Is only pos
sible if England foregoes her claim for sat
isfaction from Russia for the Penjdeh Incl
dent. Satisfaction, continues the dispatch,
Russia will not give.
The Globe this afternoon repeats the
story that the police authorities still hold to
the theory that the explosion In the Admir-.
slty office Thursday morning was the re
suit of private malice against Mr. Swain
son, the chief clerk in the Secretary's de-
partment.
A dispatch from Tangiier states that the
specisl French mission, recently arrived
there, will soon start fer Fee, to present the
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