ENGLAND & RUSSIA. [BY TELEGRAPH.-COPYRIGHT.] [REUTERS TELEGRAMS ] PACIFIC ASSURANCES. THE BOUNDARY QUESTION.
St Petersiiuro, July IS. The Journal de St Petersburg, in an article to-day on the movements of the Russian troops in the vicinity of the Zultikar Pass, states that they are of an uninipoit.int chatacter. It adds that Russia will do nothing to compromise the present negotiations for a peaceful settlement of the frontier question.
London, July 17. It is announced that the Russian Government has put forward a claim to occupy the positions commanding the Zulfikar Pass, alleging as a reason that the shortest road between the Russian position at Akrobat and Pul-i-Khatun (7) lies through that pass.
July 18. It is announced that the English Afghan Boundary Commission has encamped at a distance of eighteen miles northward of Herat. It is also announced that Russia now wishp.s the delimitation enquiry to take place on the Afghan frontier, and not in London.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2034, 21 July 1885, Page 3
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154ENGLAND & RUSSIA. [BY TELEGRAPH.-COPYRIGHT.] [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS ] PACIFIC ASSURANCES. THE BOUNDARY QUESTION. Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2034, 21 July 1885, Page 3
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