LORD SALISBURY ON THE AFGHAN QUESTION.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1215, 12 June 1885, Page 4

LORD SALISBURY ON THE AFGHAN QUESTION.

At a public meeting lit Wrexham J>rd Salisbury referred as follows to the Itmsiiin advance in Afghanistan : My idea of Ihe manner of dealing with Russia is not to extract from her promises which she will not keep, but to say to he-, “There is a point to which yon shall not go, and if jmi go we « ill spare tni'lr’r men nor money ll til on g luck” do not say "h't that |k-iii r sli dl he I «iv Ihai tha is a nm' pr tor strategists to de lade. I h-ive <l. nhts whether I -Inmld li vn selected Per j-deh as Hie place to fi_ lit. bei-nU e il. is so ua'ces ili'e hat is it point upon witch •■enai iy no o e wh has n a access t • in litary advic can venture 'o gve an Opinion But what I would wi hto i s ! st upon i lha it yon .!> sire to k> < p 11 1 n• eini ire ev< r the natives wi ich is the secaet ' f your | ower in India, and to r. tain that nu i o( prices upo . wh ch i m r iO" er rep > es ; il yet wish to keep alive in tin i mi ds the eli. ft, ao the Engish rule is permanent, and that it is to their inteie-t to keep and sustain that rule—if ion wish these things, yon rnn tnt allow yonr.se] es to 'e driven fr. m point to point, y n mini nor ail. w voitisc'n-s to cede ived iy cnnninglv-coni rved as-nrsme.es. Yon must make it nt only tdear to your own min is, lull clear to them and the World, hat them j. a point where yon mean penman ntlv to n-sist, and that beyond that po<nt it will be impossible To l’ns-ia to go Now the difficulty 'of onr pie en'- position is not 01 ly the inacce si' iiitx of the place where Get e'rnl K< m r ff is stationed, hut, it also lies in our singular skill in uniting all the na, ions of the w--rid against us, so that the Dar anelles will be closed, and we should be unable to strike login in that point, where she will feet. Therefore I fear that the probability is th it General Komati ff will .-core a A-oiy serious advantage. I am sure that every man in this room earnestly wishes for peace ; lut the p=uce ma be bought too deary, aid I cannot Inn Tel apprehensive lest. if. after the act -if unprovoked aggussion which General K>.nun-off has perpetrated ac I’eij deli, it isalho-ed t'-rciuai mire* pelled and unavenged, and no . ff.rt is made to wipe out t lie stain which has falls mi the arms ot our al ins, and .through hem, in s >ine deirn e, upon ' us. Excuses will l.e foitlicoming in » cartloads, 10 doubt; bat General ;'K.innar. ff turned out the fjnms fr n > j deh, who were under the coante mu nee and advice of two i ritish offis •oersy and has been unable to prevent • irt.