ENGLAND'S TERMS. THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE. PROSPECTS OF PEACE REMOTE. TURKEY'S INTENTIONS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2000, 2 May 1885, Page 2

ENGLAND'S TERMS. THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE. PROSPECTS OF PEACE REMOTE. TURKEY'S INTENTIONS.

London', Apnl 30. Tun Times this morning states that Engl uid lias pioposcd an enquiry into the leient Penjdeh incident, and Ii us oiieied to delimitate the Allghau frontier line in accordance with the Mews of llussiu, on condition that tli.it country undertakes to bind herself by tivity never to seize 1 [or.it.

Co\stvxti\oplk, April 29. The European Powers arc urging upon the Porte the desirability of maintaining a strict neutrality in the o\ent of an outbreak of war between England and Russia. The Turkish Government, however, are increasing the defensive works on the Dardanelles, iind at Sherapiu, on the Bosphorus.

[sl>fcCIAL 10 I'KKsS WSOCIATIOX. London, April 29. It i.s reported that tho Russian Council of the Empire will reject the proposed concession for a settlement of the Afghan difficulty. The Russians are acthety mobilis- "'£?•

[RfcUTMt's TI.U.».K\Ms,] In tho House of Commons last nipflit, Lord Edmoml Fitznmuriee, the Under-Secretaiy for Foreign Affairs, announced that the Go\ eminent had received a telegram from Sir Peter Lumsden, dated Sunday, April 26, in which lie stated that the Russian troops were advancing up the valley of the Murghah, and had occupied Maruchak. The occupation of Maruchak by the Russians dispels all hope of a peaceful solution of the difficulty, and it is l>«lie\ ed that they arc ad\ancing to Her.it.