RUSSIA AND ENGLAND.
THE OUTLOOK ST[LL THREATENING . .;. r.; •...: RUSSIA CLAIMS GERUIC:.^ OBJECTS TO FORTIFICATION OF HERAT. DEMANDS THAT AFGHAN FRONTIER REMAINS UNFORTIFIED. " i ■ i . (<li««"Pßiq TBLEGHIPII. — COPYRIGHT.) (special to united press association) London, May 21. The Standard states that Russia claims Geruk, a town about 110.; miles f rqm Penj-Deh, m a north-easterly direction.* She also objects to England fortifying Herat, and require--* that the Af- j ghan front!.-» r shall remul'i unfortified. The: Amvjji- has sent a lioavy .battery of i artillery to 'Ijrat. THE GO \ GRNMENT AGAIN RETICENT, MASSING OF TROOPS AT ALEX- j ANDRIA. SUGGESTIVE PREPARATIONS. '! ' SOJ^E IMPORTAMT MOVEMENT' CONTEMPLATLD. .■ ■ , . ■ .' . . . -..:?•• (REUTE't'S TELEGNAUS.') May 21. In the House of Commons to-day the Marquis o£ Hartington, Secretary of State for the War Department, announced m reply to a question that Her Majesty's ' Government did not deem it' desirable at the present juncture to explain the. reason why the Guards had been detained at Alexandria to await orders. He had ordered that a massing of troops recently employe-! m Soudan should be 1 continued ('with i view to their being available for s*.::» r lce elsewhere.' _..i •- J \
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 144, 23 May 1885, Page 2
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188RUSSIA AND ENGLAND. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 144, 23 May 1885, Page 2
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