RUSSIA AND ENGLAND.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 97, 27 March 1885, Page 3

RUSSIA AND ENGLAND.

(RLBOTBIO TBIiEGEA-PH^r-COPYRIGHT.) .; <SPBOIAL * VQ ■ UNITED i iPBESS .ASSOCIATION; ) ; •.■.:•.•'• London, March 1 25. It is m tended by the'lndian Government to a»«patch;s6,Ooo troops to Pisheen. near Kandahar, : in Afghanistan, ;G.eneral : Sir ;Don/*ld M. jStewarfci head, i bf , the Miliary, ".Department m India. wV 1 bp placed m command. '..','... (EBUTEB'S T^iiEGBAWTS.) '" ' ' !- " '■■. : Loin)qN > ".Mai > ch'26L jFrjqqueiit injieryiews have taken place durin/; tnt> pasj; few days between Earl Granidlle, Foreign Minister, arid' Musuiries Pasha', Turkish Ambassador, and Hassan Fehmyi Pashas; Turkish Special Envoy- The. fact has given rise to rumor b that arrangements are being concluded ■ for an Anglo-jTurkish alliance m the ey ont of an' outbreak' of hostilities between England and 'Bus'sia,: Thfe ' Goverhnierit hAve as yet received no an swer to the ; communication' ad-. : dresse i by EarlGranville.jto the, Busy 'sian .I 'oreigUj .Office on the 16th Mjarch on the» subject vof Afghan frontier dis-, pute.. „ [ t .. „.;' „,. . .;-,.;.,.: ... „,.'...„ , t Calcutta., March 2§. , ; It fs announced that General Sir. Fredei dek Bob.erts with, a force pf 25,000 iinpw • being mobilised and will proceed, withe <ut delay ■'. to occupy Bolan Pass. . Troo ps to number 15,000 will : be drafted 1 fron? i England to India m order td : -'siif>' : ply tub place of the force - despatched to thd southern- frbntien .; .i i „i