RUSSIA & AFGHANISTAN.
ADVANCE OF MUSCOVITE TROOPS. OCCUPATION OF THE GULFIKAR PASS. DIPLOMATIC ACTION OF ENGLAND. [BY BLBCTBIO TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT.] [EEDTBR's T-LKGiUM.]
London, March 3. In the House of Lords to-day, Earl Granville stated that the Government had received information that the Russians in Central Asia have occupied the Gulfikar Pass of Hindu Kush mountains, and have advanced within a few miles of Panjdeh, in Afghanistan. Sir Peter Lumsden, the British Commissioner on the Frontier Question, has advised the Afghans to resist any further advance on thfr part of the Russians. His Lordship added that the Government have urged the Russian Government to order its commanders to halt, and make no further encroachment on Afghan territory. A Press Association telegram says:— England has warned Russia that she will resist the absorption of Afghan territory.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7268, 5 March 1885, Page 5
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