CABLE MESSAGES.
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St. Petersburg, Dec 16
Reports are generally current that a quarrel exists between the Czar; and the Czarewitch. The latter demands Constitutional Government, which the former refuses; to accede to. :
(from the lytteltontimes.) .; 'Calcutta, Dee.-15. '• Fighting still continues round Cabul. On the 14th, the' Afghans;' who ««re numerically superior to the British, made a desperate attack on the heights south of the icity, occupied by ; British troops. General Roberts consequently decided to abandon the; heights, concentrating his forces on. \he : cantonments pf Sherpan, north'of Cabul. ' Orders have been 1 given to-.Gougix-.93id A.r.lmtlmo,t. to . bring up reinforcements from .Gandamak and Jellalabad.
Dec. 16
Further details of the fighting on the iUth show that the Afghans,, to the number of 30,000, madeseveral desperate attacks. General Roberts lost one gun. He telegi-aphs to the Viceroy that help Avas urgently required. 1 ■
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 357, 19 December 1879, Page 3
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147CABLE MESSAGES. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 357, 19 December 1879, Page 3
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