ENGLAND AND RUSSIA

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 123, 2 April 1885, Page 2

ENGLAND AND RUSSIA

RUSSIAN CRUISERS ViN THE PACIFIC, i.J RUSSIA'S REPLY CONCILIATORY. [BEUTEBB TELKOBi.M3.j ■ , j "LoNi>©j^'Marcli 31. The natives in intGa continue to show the greatest loyaltyioihe British Throne. The Eussianff^are <ftiwßßßqg?W&--orders among Ijhe natives in^tjhe P^nj district, thff object i)eing 'to *creaitfe*a pretext 'for interf©reac€u.v l uisn'^^na^e«^ It is beKeved,.-]fchat.7^ine Bussian war vessels are cruising in the Pacific— Several of hercruigers are alfeo rep&ted to be voyaging iri the'neighbe>hood of the Eiver Amoor. ■[ •. :OJ/ <JTTBA2" In the House of Lords the Marquis of Hartington,: Secretary of State for the War Department, stated^ thai the jk reply of the Russian^Gid^ernment -to- 5 the eoinmumc&tibnYe'^ England to Eu^sia'Tekriec^uig affairs ion the Afghan frontier is or a concili:atory nature/f „',.\. iti ,j) The Channel ' J^fajwy returned suddenly .to SheernessijM .(I The Novoe :Vrei?tyar.,§pnsidera that Australia wilf form ifarfi important sphere for Eussi^n cruisers. The same paper also the establishment of Eussian Consuls in thePacffic.: I .':,^ 0 ; 1^- 0^^ Nine ironclads^ Wen^.^u|j^gunboats, and thirty si^- torpedo "boa^s are being equipped in the English dockyards. They are mtendW&y&rvice in theßaltic; 1 :: : i ;'^;}\ ? O2 ""';'- E -7"' 1 In the House 'oij^r^^jo^a.y the Marquis pf sar<Mgi»n^Se^etar3r of State for; War} announce^ "that it was impossible to make any -"•tafiement to the House ;' as j;o ttte pregfeie of negotiations with' " Eussjar Tbfef ore^tho Easter recess. oLpi4;Harting^oin(act^ed that the military preparations were beinjg: carried ojatby theoßrffish, wexe.npt^intend^^; ! '|fl^' I 'waV /i 6*..a menace to Eussia. V '!^ • r ßomdat; 3|a^ch^i.^ AbdurrhamanKhan^'^Apa€(eirro|fAfghanistan, arrived ,'toitiaj^tol tjjfcvvul Pmdi, where he f as (ffMkiif iil#ved by Earl erin, A^cei^y.. The reception was [of, ja. yery fimppgnig nature, and was ■ numerously^alteaded by British and Indian 'dignitaries^ . . Si^-JtßY;^4n L l s The, Government have double the .land, forces, ancf^ktorpedo scheme for the prafceefcibU: e£ the harbor is no «• completed^ ' -' < i V- r ;-••<> (PKB UXITSI> : PIIKBS ASSOBfATHfiT): The fTOverninent are, arra^iii^ for the services • of; ;.Captain • . Ba<|h^u), of Tttsmania, in connection LiMfitit) the erection of bartterits, dte;'' Badham is an oiacer-df th» s Ro-yal Artillery, jtnd is ; - esjjerienced in such works. ■ „,.. , ._ ■ . n i,. In conneetionr with ;,defence^ w,wk, the Post suggests . that; Aupjda)>d, Wellington', Cliristchurch, and-Isune-din should pr^aaise a series !&f defence bees to aid the . construction df'roads and earthworks required. Government are: also having 'constructed a' number of dynamite : torpeddes 'dr^inWfor ■harbor defence: ■•■ :; " il ' ;! ' l iV' ; f^