The age-herald., 1897-09-19
OTHERS ARE ORDERED OUT
Fears That the AmeGr May Be Lacking
 ts-idelity.
IS THE IRIS sfAMlNE CRY ABY-PLAY
Special cags Parliament May Be Asked Graini&I Fruit Crop Promises an
 = lndant Yeld-Comments
 S on the Cuban War.
Special London Cable Letter.)

Special London Cable Letter) London Sept 1S.-The fact that no less than ten batteries of horse and field artillery have been ordered to embark for India during the months of septem- Der and October Is much commented upon in military circles. Under ordinary circumstances the batteries now in India. would have been relieved this month. But these batteries have been ordered to remin in India and threfore there Will shortly be on the frontier four teen batteries of artillery, a full com- plement for an army corps. As the
 British forces now assembled on the frontier is of ample strength to wipe out all visible resistance. the only conclus-
 the dispatch of endorsements of artil- lery is that the authorities are possessed
 of information of serious character. The intmation conveyed by the war of- fee on Monday last to the London com-
 istan that no war material or machinery for the manufacture thereof would be allowed to cross the frontier indicates | that the British government has by no 
 | means full confidence in the ameer's fidelity and it is learned that the gov- ernment knows that whdle profegsing friendship in his actions, the amesr has
 been secretly preparing for war. The well-informed circles are also discussing a secret treaty between Russia and Af- ghanistan which is said to have fallen into the hands of British officials and it is further minated that a widespread
 plot, embracing the Beluchistan and others have been discovered. The truth or otherwise Of these stories will de- velop hereafter, but the fact remains
 that the large increase in the strength the British artillery in India cannot be intended for use against the Afridis.
 The eNterlt of the dltress threatening Ireland seems to depend largely as to phrough which party1s eyes it is viewed. The council Of the National Federation has decided ttat the country is on the Brink of widespread calamity, and calls upon Messrs. Dillon and Harring-
 ton to colvoke a meeting of the Irish members of parliament foa the purpsse of re. Hi ui'tionng MT. Balfour, the gov ernmerlt isader in The commons, to call an autumn sesson of palqia ment to de- wise relief measures and to pass a bill
 reducing the rents in Ireland in pro- portion to the loss incurred by the ten- ants cwng to the wholesale destruction | of their crops. On the other hand, the | Dublin Express says the cry of famine | lis merely continuation of the party | war cry which is rasssd every year the ! unfonsts are In office, and adds: Judging from the past, we may hope | that much of the crops doomed to de- structton by the prophets of evl will be rescued and tbalt the geneihl yield will be much larger-than expected" The Daily Independent regards inc suggestion that the Duchess of York will shortly appeal for funds in behalf of the Irish, who arc threatened with famine, as being an insult, and says:
 .'If the country was ten times as bad ly off as 1t is lkely to be, it would re- sent any charitable appeal to the Eng fish"
 The Speaker says it regards the cap
 ture of Victoria de has Tunas by the
 Cuban insurgents as being salutory
 lesson taking the ground that it gives Spain a sisaak. which it is hoped will
 check her in her drift towards bark
 ruptcy and civdl war.
 While not expressing sympathy with the motives. the speaker adds:
 "rhe United States can find excsilent reasons to intervene whenever she likes"
 The Speaker advises Spain to recall Captan-Geneial weyler and arrange terms with the Cubans through the in- termediaIy of the United Stats. express ing the opinion that spain may have a greater danger to face after the United states congress meets.