ENGLAND AND RUSSIA.
[REUTER’S TELEGRAMS —COPYRIGHT,] (Received March 14, 2.45 p.m ) London, March 13. Active preparations are being made both in England and India in view of the Anglo-Russian situation. The plans of the military authorities provide for the despatch to Afghanistan, if necessary, of two army corps numbering each 36,000 men, and preparations are being made by the Admiralty for a fleet of transports to convey the troops to be sent from England. Latest intelligence from Central Asia is to the effect that Major-General Lumsden is now close to Herat, and will enter that city if the Russians advance from their present position, near Paijdeh. Despatches to hand from Persia state that the Shah’s Government favors the action of Russia with regard to Afghanistan. In the House of Commons to-day the Hon W. E. Gladstone announced that it had been agreed between Eng land and Russia that no further advance of their troops should be made on either side in Afghanistan ; that the question of the delineation of the frontier *was under diplomatic treatment, but it would be premature to pronounce an opinion as to the possibility of. a solution being arrived at.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1488, 14 March 1885, Page 3
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194ENGLAND AND RUSSIA. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1488, 14 March 1885, Page 3
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