Anglo-Russian Difficulty.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 6734, 17 April 1885, Page 2

Anglo-Russian Difficulty.

PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT OF DIFFICULTY. GENERAL KOMAROFF'S REPLY TO RUSSIAN DISPATCH. [UEUTER's COPVRIGH'r TELEGRAMS. I London, April 16. — Persistent rumours are current that a peaceful settlement has been effected in the Russo-Afglrin difficulty, but nothing tangible has transpired. In the House of Commons, to-day, Mr. Gladstone took occasion to deny the statement circulated to the effect that Penjdeh had been ceded to Russia. Sr. Petersburg, April 16. — A dispatch has been received from General Komaroff, dated Gth April, in which ho slates that after the hostilities on 30th March, the remnant of the Afghan force fled to Herat, A detachment of the Russian troops remain at tho Pulikhistes fort, two miles north of Penjdeh. General Komaroff concludes his dispatch by stating that an advance is at present needless. It is suspected that Russia's pacific reply and acceptance of a commission to Eettlo the frontier difficulty is only a device to gain time, and that an attack will ba made upon Herat as soon as her military preparations are more advanced. The comwiidsion appointed to settle the frontier difficulty will, it is thought, be certain to disagree, ixwi general fears are entertained that a crisis will recur, and that war is imminent. Extensive naval and military preparations in England aud India are being hurried forward with the utmost desp itch. It is expected, in the event of war between Great Britain and Russia, that Turkey will remain neutral. It is no.v found that Russia demands that tho Afghan frorticr territory under consideration shall be extended southward.