RUSSIAN MOVEMENTS.
[bbtjteb's telegrams— copybight.] (Received April 28, 2.15 p.m.) Bombay, April 27 The latest news from Afghanistan states that the Ghillgzi revolt is rapidly spreading. It is reported that the Russian troop at Fenjdeh has been recently reinforced. (PEB STEAMER AT ADELAIDE-) (Received April 28, 2 30 p m. London, April 27. The Governor of Russian Turkestan has been making a tour of the provinces Under his rule, and decreasing taxes, heaping rewards on chiefs, and persuading the Khans to ally themselves closely to Russia by promising high offices m the event of a campaign againßt India. Great dissatisfaction prevails among the Ameer's troops and the garrison at Herat, owing to their being paid m provisions instead of cash. Russian spies, it is asserted, are openly moving about Afghanistan, though the Ameer is taking measures to check them. In a circular copy which has reached Bombay calling upon his subjects to raise a holy war, the Ameer Abdurrahman denounces the Czar as a great tyrant, whose troops are daily advancing. The situation is greatly complicated by the fact that the Ameer is m very bad health. A strategic line of railway to Quetta is complete.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1544, 28 April 1887, Page 3
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196RUSSIAN MOVEMENTS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1544, 28 April 1887, Page 3
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