The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1885. War Inevitable

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 133, 25 April 1885, Page 2

The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1885. War Inevitable

The news cabled from England on the Russo-Afghan difficulty yesterday leave very little hope for peace The English Government for a long time appear , to have been aware that the Ameer of i Aghanistan was averse to the occupation of Herat by our troops, and was more favorable to an alliance with Russia. This prince was educated in Russia, and his friendly relations with that power have been kept up without interruption since Ayoub Khan was overthrown and he was throned in his stead. We make the following extract from our contemporary the Herald, "He has more in common with Russia than with England. The democratic institutions of the latter nation he can regard only with contempt, while the forms of Government of the former come near his own despotic views. In the event of hostilities breaking out between England and Russia over this question, it is more than likely the Ameer will favor hiß friends, the Russians. Knowing his character, we cannot expect him to act otherwise than a false friend, should he take up no more open hostile attitude." This fact, with the knowledge that they would be fighting in a friendly county, will be quite sufficient encouragement for the Russians to press forward against the forceß of England and those of her native allies. The defiant attitude of Russian towards the English Government in refusing to institute further enquiries into KomaofE's assertion to to the cause of hostilities at Penjdeh is tanamount to a declaration that peace negociations are now at an end, and war may be declared at any moment.