England and Russia
[rRVTBR's TRUORAVS.J London, July 13. The House of Commons last; night Voted the aupplementary^eredit asked for hjr the #oveniment. th-ajgight If on. ..the Miriiater f«r War, tor, flf Smith, nraing || was c to complete the necessary >, prepantion*. pending- a settlement with Russia.' Mr Smith added that the present ! Geve.'nment were not prepared to accede • to the demands made by Russia to their i predeoessere in oft!*). ' , ; * Iv* the Heuae of Commons to-night, : , 'during the dinousaion on the .vote ef ' credit, Mr M. H. Smith, Secretary for i Wiir. alated that tbe vote was for the ,'' purpose of despatching 85,000 additional •' troepa to India if required. .] The Russians have flogged a clerk in the employ of the British Consul at Eesh ' a town thirty miles south of Sauarcand. . The^ cause ef the outrage was the refusal < of the cleric to divulge information , regarding the English Afghan frontier agents.,. / ' ' Fifteen thousand men, armed with I breach loaders will garrison Herat, aad a ' large number of -heavy tfuiis are' being ' sent there for the fortification of the ' town. . ]
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 15, 16 July 1885, Page 2
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178England and Russia Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 15, 16 July 1885, Page 2
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