INTENDED MARCH OF THE RUSSIANS UPON INDIA.
The following important item is clipped from the columns of the Dunedm " Evening Star" : — On April 8 General Schnerigioff was ordered to St. Petersburg for a conference with the Emperor and Military Council. On the following day he was despatchtd to Central Asia by forced conveyance. He is understood to have received a commission to go to the Cossacks, raise a large body of cavalry, and obtain recruits in the various brauches of the army, ns he advanced towards the borders of British India, for the purpose of invading it as soon as war would bedeclaied. He is reported to be well acquainted with Aria, and is expected to enter Northern India by way of the Panni Plateau. The information is obtained from a telegram sent from St. Petersburg to the "New York Herald."
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North Otago Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 1888, 15 May 1878, Page 2
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141INTENDED MARCH OF THE RUSSIANS UPON INDIA. North Otago Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 1888, 15 May 1878, Page 2
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