Russian Journals on the Situation

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 128, 14 April 1885, Page 2

Russian Journals on the Situation

The St. Petersburg Yiedomosti of Tebrii'ary 17, ' referring to the f ear* expressed ' that Russia '■ may ■ thkh aSdl vantage of thh SdUdan catastrophe to advance another step in Central Asia, cornea to the conclusion -that Europe would be in no way disquieted by th? news of the inhabitants of Herat wishr ihg tb follow the ekample of the Mer» vians in seeking the protection of Russia. „,„,.. ■ THis"'^iiTnal^^!_uch,'lilce , the Moscow Gazette, is 1 alwttys bitterly hostile to England whenever anything English is undo* discussion', is the only JBt. Petersburg he wspapef of position that has imported "' itiLy [ ajippifent' ill-feeling into its Remarks on the' death of General Gordon. .Its 'only theme 'ii that the fall of Odidon ahd Khartoum changes the. political -situation in 'a sense decidedly 1 uftfavoritble ' f dr Eng-i land, and that England's present discomfitUre r furnishes -a f good opportunity for Russia > to operate on Herai with impunity; •'- y.-trUy\:< y To-day?s Journal de St. Petersburg; the Organ of the ,- Russian Foreign Offieh, contains a short article on the subject of the false alarm about 'the I Russian capture of Herat, attributing it to a tnck J hi fofeigi? speculators! ori the Exchanges of London and Benih, It then a very significant para-i graph from' yesterday's NOvoe Vreniya which was Strudk Out of all yesterday's messages by , the ■ Censor. This paragraph tallies with what I said last night, vto. the effect that if we do not remain at Herat and take the Afghans) entirely: under our own, control -instead of withdrawing, even -after the coni elusion of a prober frontier arrflfaife.mOivt,! ithssia Jtvnl taJce? herv'ewij measures as regards all future Afghani frontier difficulties. The passage runs "It seems to us that the prolonged . stay of an Engi&fc detachment close to 1 1 our frontier and the British munificence of Sir. Peter Lumsden may have an injurious influence upon tiie impressionable minds of the Afghans. . But as by the existii_g treaty the EUglish have undertaken the disagreeable and expensive t^k> of over the Afghans, they must keep the latter well in hand. .. t If .England show herself weak aVd' incapable in this respect, then Russia will be compelled to t have recourse to herowh resources." — ] Correspondent London Times. ' •;';