THE OUTBREAK OF WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA AND AFGHANISTAN.
[REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. >—< THE RUSSIAN ATTACK ON THE AFGHAN TROOPS. (Received April 11, 1.30 a.m.) London, April 10. A later despatch is received by the Government from Sir Peter Lumsden in which he qualifies the statement that the Russian attack on the Afghan troops was entirely unprovoked, and states that when the Russian force menaced the Afghan outposts at Penjdeh, the Afghans crossed the river Kooskh, and took up a stronger position.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2670, 11 April 1885, Page 2
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82THE OUTBREAK OF WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA AND AFGHANISTAN. Kumara Times, Issue 2670, 11 April 1885, Page 2
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