RUSSIA AND AFGHANISTAN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 3277, 28 March 1885, Page 2

RUSSIA AND AFGHANISTAN.

(By Electric Tei^graph — Copyright.) (Rkuter's Agency.)

WARLIKE MOVEMENTS.

THE ENGLISH MILITIA AND RESERVES TO BE CALLED OUT. (Received 11 a.m. March 27th.) London, March 26. Government have as yet received no answer to the communication addressed by Earl Granville to the Russian Foreign Office on 16th March, on the subject of the Afghan frontier dispute. Calcutta, March 26. It is announced that General Sir Frederick Roberts with the force of 25,000 men, now being mobolised, will proceed without delay to occupy Bolan Pass. Troops to the number of 15,000 will be drafted from England to India, m order to supply the place of the force despatched to the Southern - Afghan frontier. . • [Received 3 p.m., Maroh 27th.] London, March 25. A message from the Queen was read m Parliament to-day, announcing that m view of the grave emergency which has arisen m Foreign Affairs, it had been decided to call out the Militia and Reserves, the latter of which force would be embodied for permanent service. (SPECIAL TO THE PRESS ASSOCIATION. ) (Received 10.30 a.m., March 27th. J London, March 25. In consequence of war being imminent, the officers who have been absent on furlough ara now hastening their return to India. Russia ib bidding for an alliance with Turkey.