ENGLAND AND RUSSIA

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 120, 26 March 1885, Page 3

ENGLAND AND RUSSIA

INDIAN OFEICERB ON FURLOUGH KECALLED. 60,000 INDIAN TROOPS READY TO MARCH. # % £RmJTBE*B TbUOBAMB ] Lonbon, March 23. In the house of Commons to daj Mr Gladstone stated, in reply to a question, that Earl Granville, Secr««tnry of State for Foreign Affairs, bad addressed an important communication to Russia on the 16th of March, and that it was expectcd that the character of the answer would ~ determine" 'whether negotiation* between the two Powers would take place in London, or whether the Afghan frontier delimitation would be settled by the Local .Commission Enquiry as desired by the British Governmrnt. 50,000 Indian . troops are ready f» march to the Afghan frontier. Bombay, .March. 25. It is announced that those officer* of the British and Indian armies who are absent on furlough at the present time will be recalled to India without delay. Received March 26, 1.15 a.m. . London, March 25. The greatesfraotivitj is being shown in all >e. AdmicaUy dock yards for possible Lostilitirs with Rnspia. , <CxtcxrtTX, March 25. A division of tne Indian nrmy has been #r ered to procVed forthwith to Peshm, ia southern Afghanistan, and. a reserve force of forty thousand men if also being Mobilised, It is expected Major General Duke of Connaught, commanding at Meerat, will take command of the reserve division, . . , r , '. ■ . \;- r \.. ; . ":•■ Later. The number of men in the reserve force which, is abaut to be mobiliied will be 20.000, aot 40,000 as previously reported. Capetown Affairs : " " [BEPTEM ' ' ' '. i ,[C.fWowv.' March, 2s. ', It lias transpired thar, Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor of Cape Colony, has formally raqjuest^d C<>lonel Sir Charles Warreb t<> »t*r the action lie is taking as commander of .*fce British expedition in Bechuirtlarv* fcp,tb,e Ktf '•ment of affitire in that dis;tr^t. rrC>l«»«l Warrea, how ever^Heclines to »<Jdg|M«e the authority of the Governor of the Cape, and. ban ftppealed-10-tLe-Colonial Office to uphold X«w» w' r rocieiVed from. Bechuanaland that at number of British; surveyors there fbeen arrested,' and are .held in cusby the Boers. .