A COLLISION WITH THE AFGHANS AVOIDED.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 122, 3 October 1885, Page 4

A COLLISION WITH THE AFGHANS AVOIDED.

London, August 21. — A despatch sent today from Meshed, Persia, near the Afghan frontier, to the "Times," states that a collision between the Russian and Afghan posts nearly occurred on the 13th inst, at Karatope, eighteen miles from Chamanibed, Some Kussian troops, so the despatch states, approached Earatepe, and the Afghan troops there stood to their arms. The lvus sian officer, when he saw this, ordered his troopers to unsling their carbines, and he was shot and severely wounded by the accidental discharge of one of these weapons. Before the exact nature of his accident was ascertained, there was considerableexcitetoentand confusion, which however, subsided as soon as the truth was made known. The Afghans then detained the Russians until they rocieved orders from Herat to let them go. During the detention the Afghans treated the wounded Russian officer with great kindness, bandaging his wounds, and sent him back to the Russians lines. A hurried investigation of the occurrence was made on both sides. The Russian commander exonerated the Afghans, and promised that the troopers j should not again advance beyond Chamanibad. Four English officers continue to supervise the work of repairing and strengthening tho forts of Herat.