THE PAMIRS.
(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
ST. PETERSBURG, July 22.
Several leading Russians have equipped an expedition, to be under tbe cormnaad of Colonel Yanoff, for an eight months' stay in the Pamirs, with the intention of permanently possessing the country. The expedition will have instructions to establish military stations on the road to India, commanding Baroghil Pass. The advance will be further than that in 1891. Military stations are to be established at Sarbad and.Watham.
LONDON, July 23. In tbe House of Commons yesterday, Sir E. Grey, Parliamentary Under-Secre-tary to the Foreign Office, refused to explain tbe terms of tbe Bussian demands respecting the Pamirs. He explained tbat negotiations were still proceeding; and tbat, in a despatch, tbe Czar has assured tbe Imperial Government that tbe report of tbe advance of a Russian expedition in the Pamirs was without foundation.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2487, 25 July 1893, Page 2
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