RUSSIAN TROUBLE.
By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. • (reuteivs telegrams.) Received March 27, at i a.m. London, March 26. Frequent interviews have taken place during the past few days between Earl Granville, the Foreign Minister, Musurus Pasha, Turkish Ambassador, and Hassan Fehmy Pasha, Turkish Special Envoy. The fact has given rise to rumors that an arrangement has been concluded for an Anglo-Turkish alliance in the event of an outbreak of hostilities between England and Russia. Received March 27, at 11 a.m. London, March 26. The Government has as yet received no answer to the communication addressed by Lord Granville to the Eussian Foreign Office on the 16th March, on the subject of the Afghan frontier dispute. Calcutta, March 26, It is announced that General Sir Frederick Roberts, with a force of 25,000 men, now being mobilised, will proceed without delay to ocenpy Bolan Pass. Troops to the number of 15,000 will be drafted from England to India, in order to supply the place of the forca dispatched to the Southern Afghan frontier. deceived March 27, at 3 p.m. London, March 26. A message from her Majesty the Queen was read in Parliament to-day announcing that in view of the grave emergency which has arisen in foreign affairs, it has been decided to call out the militia and the reserves. The latter forca. will be embodied for permanent services.
(special to press association.) Received March 27, at 10.30 a.m. London, March 25. In consequence of war being considered imminent, those officers who have been absent on furlough are now hastening their return to India.
Russia is bidding for an alliance with Turkey.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume IX, Issue 2862, 27 March 1885, Page 2
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