THE RUSSIANS AND AFGHANS.
RUMOURS OF A SECOND ENGAGEMENT,
RUSSIANS SAID TO HAVE BEEN DEFEATED.
- r . London, April 28. The Times states Mr Gladstone has offered to settle thij Penj-Deh difficulty by arbitration.- - y It is reported that the Czar offers that General' Komaroff and Sir Peter Lumsden should be examined by a mixed commission. Persistent rumours are afloat that a second engagement between the Bussians and Afghans has taken place, and that the Bussian were defeated with a loss of 1000.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 124, 30 April 1885, Page 2
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