WAR PREPARATIONS. THE FORTY MILLION LOAN. ANOTHER RUSSIAN LOAN. London, February 20.
The Birmingham factories are working night and day manufacturing a quick firing she'l and other ammunition. Sir Edward Clarke, Solicitor-General, speaking at Deal, said Mr Goschen was in a position to pay interest on a defence loan of forty millions without imposing fresh taxation. Paris, February 20. It is rumoured on the Continent that a new Russian loan of 300,000,000 roubles is imminent. St. Peter sbuiiu, February 20. Russia is spending 5,000,000 in de fence works at the seaport town of Vladivostock. The object of Geneial KomarofT, the Russian commander in Centra! Asia, in moving on to Cnarjui, a town of Independent Turkestan on the road to Persia, is to occupy all the important points, and thus facilitate the striking of a crushing blow if the Ameer moves across the frontier.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 345, 23 February 1889, Page 4
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143WAR PREPARATIONS. THE FORTY MILLION LOAN. ANOTHER RUSSIAN LOAN. London, February 20. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 345, 23 February 1889, Page 4
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