THE RUSSO-AFGHAN DIFFICULTY
(REUTER’S TELEGRAMS—COPYRIGHT.) (Received May 6, 11.15 a.m.) London, May 5. During the course of a long and animated debate in the House of Commons to-day on the vote of credit o! Li 1,000,000 for military purposes, introduced by Mr Gladstone, Lord Randolph Churchill characterised the agreement come to with Russia in the strongest terras as a cowardly surrender of England’s rights. The vote was finally adopted by the House, Mr Gladstone consenting to the discussion of the policy of the Government being fixed for next Thursday, [Received May 6, 12.45 p.m ] London, May 5. In the House of Commons to-night Mr Gladstone announced that it had been arranged that the delimitation of the Afghan frontier should be proceeded with in London.
Generals Lumsden and Stewart have been re-called from Afghanistan.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1533, 6 May 1885, Page 3
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