WAR PREPARATIONS IN INDIA.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5252, 25 July 1885, Page 2

WAR PREPARATIONS IN INDIA.

The Calcutta correspondent of the Standard states that the general opinion there is that, despite the concessions made by England, it is very doubtful whether peace will, after, all, be preserved. That the authorities consider the delay in the negotiations to be serious is evidenced by the fact that the furlough of officers has again been stopped. Tt is not true that the Indian authorities have at any time stopped their preparations for war owing to the more peaceful aspect which lately p^Vailedi In all important matters their

efforts still continue, although with less haste and urgency than was the case at the height of the crises. Ninety days' provisions and stores, including clothing, tents, and ammunition, for an army corps of 30,000 men, are being stored atPisheen. Thecontracts made by the. commissariat are still in force, and all the transport animals purchased are' still retained. As there is no prospect of this army being required to take the field immediately, the work proceeds more leisurely and at less cost, the railway plant for. the BolanHurnai route having the preference. The Bolan railway is progressing satisfactorily, and engines: already run some of the distance. Captain : Jennings has returned from executing a very successful survey of boutn-Eastern Persia, including the hitherto unknown Sarhad country.

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