The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-05-03
M THE SITUATION.
:, War News, No Peace News,
" No Truce.
,rr ARBITRATION LIKELY.
,uo Can Re Said Except that the
N"p situation is Still Uncertain,
Uncertain, Uncertain.
The Situation.

t,vnoy. May 2.-To-nlght, the anglo
10. ~. situation is one of uncertainty.
S S1, IS absolutely no war news, no
ll, news and no news of truce. No
go that is, no one outside
one Ministerial circles, is war
+.d in drawing any conclusion
am ,. tins abnormal condition of affairs.
r should be borne IN mind, that up to
Il H., .HU moment, Russia has given the
gIIasss;E.Saxon reader not an item of
n .rs Russia has acted, has advanced,
I.' vwaced battle, has taken the terri
!..y "T Int has said nothing. England
w. ui' done all the taking; has made all the
aa--n9Ianations; hence, the Gar had no
ssaAiFractions to make; but Gladstone's
,nscossity for making excuses has been
~ snnreme, that, in effort to talk against
Hows last Monday, he succeeded. with
.nt saving anything, in making the
U latest speech of his life; and for
making 1t, got completely sllenced
onnOsiton, unlinited credit and $685.
SS5OOO cash. For forty-eight hours
sitsr the Prime Minister'S marvellous
cation. every lingo in England was
gladstone man, and every Quaker
Sraved for him as man of peace. The
var partv we're sure he meant to wipe
gussita out of Asia. The peace folks
sid. " There is statesman who
rp,Iizes the value of human life"
lftpr five DAYS, it is found the
Premier's address is still an oracle.
II it is to be peace, the speech urged
every honorable effort to secure an
honorable peace. If it is to be war, the
speech dwells upon the necessity of
maintaining the British honor So 1t
happens tonight that, here, the very
centre of old world news, no more can.
with any degree of certainty, be said
than the Anglo-Russian situation is I'M
certain 1t is probable the situation
will remain as it is tonight until after
the second council at Gatschina
The latest reliable advices from st.
Petersburg hold out the idea that the
,um total of the diplomatic negotiations
will be long defensive note from De
Cicero, in which the Russian statesman
will make no admission of wrong on the
part Of General Komaroff, in his At
chan advance, and which will suggest
iurther negotiation but no arbitration.
While all this correspondence continues
tetveeu London and ST. Petersburg,
here IS no cessation of preparations
Or active warfare on either side. All
points to an ultimate rupture De
iiers has already suggested to Thorn
On that during the discussion of OBJ
eryanee of the agreement of the 18th OF
larch, the work of delimiting
be disputed Afghan frontier proceed. 1t
said the Russian minister has pro
,osed that during the work of dellmita-
ION, the Russian troops shall be with
raEn from Penideh. 1t is added that |
n this proposal. De Giers asks on the
art of Russia that in case of doubt |
nong the Commissioners as to |
be rightful boundary, the Lessar line |
hall be accepted as the correct one,
nd that he insists that the commission |
ball be confined in its work to purely |
considerations. These |
ould certainly favor Russia. On the |
art of England, DeGiers asks in |
be pending decision of the boundary |
emission that the Afghans re-
~ LAo1u tuSIr OCCupdtlOu VI Lulu-
A. It is also reported that De Giers
KS that during the work of delimi- i
luOn, no Indian advance be
emitted beyond Quetta.
The first army corps of India. under
le Duke Of Connaught, has prepared |
begin its march towards Pishn next |
In the diplomatic contest for
alliance, it would appear
lat England is making better
'OgreSs than Russia. Besides
Z permission to pass her ships through
!, Dardanelles, she has secured an
outstanding, which has insured her
Z Z friendly neutrality of Persia, in the
e event of an Anglo Russian
d d. The Shah, is it said,
4 already forbidden the Russians
~. conveying warlike material across
SSi 1. "a territory, even near Askabad.
ue brltlsh agent at Teheran reports
a. 4. England can secure any friendly
lance she desires with the Shah.