ANGLO-RUSSIAN CRISIS

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 134, 28 April 1885, Page 3

ANGLO-RUSSIAN CRISIS

tfOß* HERAT. '" y j;o '--C^pixA, April .25. His Royal Highness, the I}uke of Connaught, who had started for England, *as Seen jecalled to Simla, where a military council has been held under the pifesid^ncy, of Earl Dufferin, Viceroy. Jbetails of the conference haye not transpired, but it is believed it was decided to collect the British forces at 'Quettah. :: 'St. Pbtbsburg, April 25. In cbnn'eciSon' with the military pre<- '■ parations npwvproceeding, the officers and army tikrougaout Eussia are being large^augmejited. , : , ;■; : . - Lonvon, April 25-,,. * It is reported that a Rjossian squadron, of twenty. Bail has passed the Island of Qottlandinthe Baltic, bound to the southward. Her Majesty's ; ship Invincible- has been ordered to proceed to Singapore. The !Rußßian L Press are clamouring for Herat. The detachment of engineers *wMchl was to have been despatched to Herat will now proceed, as the Ameer has. npf given & , guarantee of support. • ; ■■< .: „ , ; ; Five Russian cruisers are reported as having passed -Aden. : , ; The number of cruisers engaged by England has been increased by twenty. The steamer Coptic, recently selected as a'cripser fer New Zealand, will after be jng, equipped, be stationed at Auckland. ■ Sydxby. April 27. It is announced that the Government have 'offered the services of ihe-New South' Wales contingent to the British Government for employment in India should occasion require. : ' It is officially notified that the proclamatiendecidring'theTFesterndnarinel | closed fcwjjop-eign yesselt entering ?ort Jackson will take effectf rpmto-morrow . The channel is closed as a precautionary measuf e'fi}r the defence of the city and Eeceived April 28v/ ••.-.• •••■•■ St. Pbtbbsbubo, April 27. ThtfMokcbw Gaiiett^, in an article to-day on the Anglo-Russian difficulty, strongly" urge's that'RtiSßia should effect a peaceful settlement, with England of the Afghan frontier question. BeceiTed April 28, 1i'.30 a.m. .I li ";' ■ Lompon. April, 27- T Router's agency announces, on good authority from Sti iPetersburg, that in that city war is considered to be inevitable. Tie : Gzar will leave to-daj-for Moscow, .where His Majesty will issue~an Imperial manifesto regarding the present crisis : . ' ■■"■ ■'■■•' The Times to-day publishes a tele-gram-fr^m^S^ ■Pelersburg stating that • England had propofeeld' to'the Russian Government that the whole circumstanoies' tit connection with Penjdeh and the recent hostilities there be submitted to arbitration.