THE AFGHAN FRONTIER DIFFICULTY.
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(Reuters Telegrams.) . 'f I LqXdon, July 13. ' ;-- (Received July 14, at I.lo' a.m.) • It is announced that the Government have lesolved to" extend the Qitetta-Pesheen Railway as far as: the Khojuk Pass, in the direction of Candahar.
:• Intelligence from Central-Asia states.that considerable Russian .reinforcements continue to advance on Sarakhs. - - -
(Special to Press Association.) London, July 13. (Received July 11, at 1.10 a.m.) The Russians have flogged a clerk in the employ of the British Consul at Kesh a town 30 miles south of Samarcand. The us° °f the outrage was the refusal of the clerk to divulge information regarding the English Afghan frontier agents. Fifteen thousand men, armed with breech* loaders, will gilffisSii iterat; aiid a Mrge nufflber ot heavy guns are being sent there for the fortification of the- town; ------
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 7294, 14 July 1885, Page 2
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138THE AFGHAN FRONTIER DIFFICULTY. Otago Daily Times, Issue 7294, 14 July 1885, Page 2
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