RUSSIA AND ENGLAND.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 16, 17 June 1885, Page 2

RUSSIA AND ENGLAND.

The Spectator finds it difficult to believe that though the Russians would like to have Herat they wish for Afghanistan. But suppose after clutching Herat, and while bearing a long English siege there, the Russian chiefs, turning aside from the stony bills and plains of Afghanistan, direct their whole unemployed J strength on Persia— that is, invade at once troin Armenia, from the Khanatei, from the Attrek, and across the Caspian : Sea — what human power could prevent thei* conquering Persia as a whole, and either seating a dynasty of their" ow^f at Teheran or a Russian Viceroy? The Russian statesmen, ifti« war be local, ised m Asia, will look lo wingiy toward* Persia ag an easy rewardfor their effort*, the Spectator feels convinced, and the only doubt is whether Persia, if seriously attacked, will be defended by Great Britain. Englishmen will do well to remember when they think of Russia there is but one conquest which would relieve the treasury ; that the idea of this conquest has never been absent from her military bureaux; and that European circumstances at this moment render this conquest more possible than it ever seemed before. She has on the theory to fight England anyhow, why hot fight for something worth her having ?" (BY BLBOTRJo TELEGRAPH.— OOPTkfOJIT.) (special to united press 'association.) .^^ London, June |4. Owing to the ; Ministerial cmii, the Russian squadron intended for despatch to the Pacific has received orders to remain m the Baltic. From the same cause parleying on the Afghan question has been suspended. .