THE CIVIL WAR IN AFGHAN.
[By Eleotrio Telegraph—Copyright.] [Reuter's Telegrams.]
News brought by the Lusitania to Adelaide states that the Governor of Russian Turkestan, in making a tour of the provinces under his rule, decreased the taxes and heaped rowards on the chiefs. He per-, suaded the khans to ally themselves closely with Russia, and promised them high offices in the event of a campaign against India. Great dissatisfaction prevails among the Ameer's troops forming the garrison of Herat, owing to their being paid in provisions instead of cash.
Russian spies are asserted to be moving about Afghanistan, though the Ameer is taking measures to check them. A circular, a copy of which has reached Bombay, calls upon the Ameer's subjects to raise a holy war. The Ameer denounces the Czar as a great tyrant, whose troops are daily advancing. ''' The situation is greatly complicated by the fact that the Ameer is in very bad health. .
The strategic line of railway to Quettah is complete.
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Evening Star, Issue 7198, 28 April 1887, Page 2
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