HERAT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 38, 13 July 1885, Page 2

HERAT.

■ ■ fEnfflish Nexos Letter.) Little evidence is given m official and political : circles m Vienna to the published statement that Bussia has bound hsrself never to take Herat. What Bussia may have declared, said a member of the diplomatic corpse is that she does not intend to occupy Herat ; but no Government said he, and least of all such a Government as that of Bussia, could agree m such stringent^rmsrio fetter its freedom of action foif^n indefinite period, particularly /with regard to a country such sis Afghanistan, Vhere many emergencies may arise tiiatv*pu|d constrain Russia to take Herat.- Tilt© view, too,-i? v corroborated by a semj-offi-cial Bussia^' communication, published m the Politische Correspenz, m which it isifarther/ stated that ;a satisfactory jter s mmation of the present ne^otiatidjis hejtween England and Bussia is confidently looked for, unless England again putg - forward impossible deraand*, arid tinder : this head, says the Politche, would come the stipulation that Russia should i formally- bind herself never take Herat. r "')K ■' . : ' '' '" '*'

f . The fpUowin.fr miormation; is^from £he Ico^apo^djerits btsthe r PaifyiChfajnfcj}s : ' — Sir Peter Lumsden's resignation" hag evoked a good deal ot feeKng m Alicia* bad, the general;belief being that it is ;due to the fret. that the Britisn Comjmissioner no longer doub'ts that he hag i 'been humiliated and thwarted from first ;' to last. As to whether the Bussian at* itack was an audacious aggression or a justifiable actiio doubt exists here, the evidence proving its aggressivis character ■clearly enough. The correspondent with 'Sir Peterjliiimsden at Tir^jul 4elegraphg, ; under date, of the Ist njsV, -&at the iHerati^and^the.Kandaharis, are: very deisirous of havmg^tKfrcb-operatibn.if British troops for the purpjes^^of -assisting ithem : iri^checking Bussian; designs. H« further states that the exaptnumber of Afghans Killed in 'the Russian attack at Pul-i-Klii^ti was 5237. It is now established beyond question tbaftfhe telegraph is to. tiriite St. Pe%sbnrg with Merv ha* been cpmpletea to Kahka— a point about 100 miles ewt of Ask'abad, or about half-way .fcetweeri;' Askabad and Merv. It is stated, with some show of that telegrams have been sent jtb all parts of India^roin the Home -Go ivernment, instructmg the war Indian lauthpiities . to at once stop all the war that have been set on foot.