RUSSIA'S MENACE TO INDIA.
llki&E BODIES of THOOPS .MOVING. GARRISON OF HERAT IN- ' ' CREASED. ;f;,[i:! By Ctelif *-apb.—r.&r*s* -'iM(xsl«tion.-Copyri6M. "■■' ; 9,56'p.tn.) ' London; November 29. The Governor of Herat, in Afghanistan, bar- reported to the Ameer that, i/here are '■movements' of large bodies of Russian troops at Peajdeh, BaHch and Mvrgktl) River, on the frontier of Russian Turkestan. The Ameer in consequence of this report has ordered reinforcements to the extent of 20,000 men to be sent to Herat, half from o%hnl and half from Kandahar. ' ' ' Herat ib within 40 tnitw of tU< borders of Russian Turkestan, at Pen|deh. which is an inspoftsT'f strategical poeitea, at the Fork of Mm Kiirtnisk and' Murghab.Rivers- PeiiJ-di-h was seized by Russia in 1 1836, and the incident nearly l«d to war with Britain. A BeliinitirtSori uomtnifaiein &*<. petiidfeh to Russia in 185?.'- Stow the' war with ,)»i»'m began, has bfi«n sending large bodiespi troops along 'the Transoalpian railways
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12725, 30 November 1904, Page 5
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152RUSSIA'S MENACE TO INDIA. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12725, 30 November 1904, Page 5
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