RUSSIAN EXPLANATIONS.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 138, 29 May 1880, Page 2

RUSSIAN EXPLANATIONS.

The Novoe Vretnya gives the following explanation of the discovery of Russian uniforms and money at Calm! : —When we. read that the Marquis of Salisbury bad not sent an autograph to .the journal composed for the fete got. up !.y the I'aiis Press in aid of the suilerers from tic inundations in Murcia because he was so busy counting the Russian uniform buttons discovered in Cab'd, we thought that somebody was perpetrating a joke. But our London correspondent informs us that tho Pall Mall Gazette and one or two other papers have made a ureal to-do about a vi-rv simple affair. The Aflghans are fond of anything showy, ind civilians as veil as soldiers are c\fessivcly addicted to buttons. Tiro,- use ! taring a decided preference for the alter, especially those marked with tip •ny at Tashend. who was instructed to lorrow from our military organization I'halevev seemed to him worth copying, fpi m; ■ • \ ;■;■ ..'s '• ■[..- s an! v. :ii Mi.-sar. This was i:,e residence of'the .fueer, arid everyone, know,, that in Asia

j tli royal paiurc is also V.iv a-sena! air italic, militsrv simehuu-e. When, there | fore, t!i. Knejib occupied Cabul, the; U..jtu,-.i:y iwn.j.l up.n »the-o. arii.de | •«••-; provided whhgoid ami silver f'rou :; - ! hare. :.- ■ if wi, u ,1 certain w hethci Ai in the Sia'.e ireasniv i> lo laud in tht Koy«! I'al.i.-e. and us the Afghan sol \i-v> i here Hasanahumlaucel.f spceio of a'll kinds, and what more natural than that there should he Itussiaii money am m.j it '. The English cannot be "uuawai-i? thai Russian money circulated in Afghanistan, for it is found even in India.