Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings about Afghanistan [‎108r] (221/312)

SUMMARY OF THIS MORNING'S NEWS.
oA rep ? r v ed . ca P ture of Ali Musjid was contradicted by a telegram received
^ rSS 011 y esterd ^ A Si ^ despatch itf thefc-
nrocrrnmi^ Government is steadily pursuing its settled
programme, and rapidly concentrating troops at Quetta and Kuram.' The
from p7 aL tf 1 I?" i, I unanimously volunteered for service oa the
sta?e? that Jnn, t ^ e P ted - A Standard telegram from Umballa
pic J* P r tS ^ ere C , urrent there that ^ting had begun in the Khyber
• ^ r ^ Ameers troops and the Afreedees, whom it was souo-ht to
punish for their having granted leave to the British mission to pass. A Simla
Xfff Al 11 f. me -l ournal sa y s that if the successor of Adhan Khan, the late
tw Gh J lzl f'. a man of warhfce disposition it is considered probable
that {he tribe, which is hostile to the Ameer, will take advantage of the war in
which he is engaged with England to throw off their allegiance to Cabal. This
wou d g 1 ^ 6 a great advantage to a British column advancing against Candahar.
The Berlin correspondent of the Morning Post states that some of the Russian
journaJs have invented a new theory to explain the Anglo-Afghan difficulty.
whole ixiatter, they say, was arranged beforehand between Lord Lytton
ai *ii khere Ah as a coup de theatre for some hidden purpose, and the storm
will su bside as sudd enly as it has arisen without war.
shllIin f of ^ he In dian and Afghan frontiers published by
NoHh W p? 313 / 5 r 6 t f ritor y ^cupied by the independent tribes on our
S thty ? f ? Afgh ^ 1 f an - This sho ^d be a great assistance
to those who desire to understand the complications likely to arise out of
authorltv m qU r. lth . Shere A1 -" 11 W0Uld, however ' have be en well if the
been stated on thp. f de ^ catl0n of tl L ese ^dependent tribes is made had
been stated on the face of the map. Purchasers are informed that it has
been compiled from the maps published by the Government of India- But
riemt 0 Hhp c eS ^f apS S / Uch a del ] mitation of the territory of the indepen-
mao and ^ Af Z h * mst * n ™ we find on Stanford's
w' and lf ^ really is based on private research, it would have be-n
better to have notified the fact in the map itself. Better still would it
mam AVd 0 wh a ^csimile reproduction, or reduction of the official
waTat .he lndk Office ?' ^ ^ t0 be pUrChased ' ia the USMl
THE TIMES, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBEK 9,
RUSSIA AND AFGHANISTAN.
BERLIN, O ct. 8.
A letter in the Golos, dated frpm Orenburg, the
city forming the base for Russian military opera
tions in Central Asia, says :—
<4 The inhabitants of British India at this
moment impatiently await the arrival of their
Russian liberators. The Lope of imminent
emancipation from foreign yoke is universal
in the country. The English, fearing that the
Russian host, bent upon freeing the Hindoo race,
will thread their way through Afghanistan, are de
termined to finticipate their adversary and to oc-
cupy the passes in advance. Not many years ago the '
despatch of British agents to the then independent
Khanates of Central Asia was intended to secure
the like object. But Captain Conolly.expelled by the
Khan of Khiva,who had no wish to offend Russia,fled
to Bokhara, where he was decapitated with Colonel
Stoddart. another agent who had been despatched to
the Khanates. The like fate would have befallen
Captain Abbot in Khiva had he not been saved bv
Russian officers. After these events, in November,
1841, the Afghans rose, killed the British
agents, Barnes and Macnaughten, and destroyed
an English force of 20,000 men, carrying
off 28,000 horses and camels. Since then the
Afghans have ever been hostile to England. To
day British policy deems it all important to with- V
draw the Afghans from the sphere of Russian in-
fluence and to place them under the control of a so-
called Resident Ambassador. The Russian out
posts being only 700 miles distance from the Indian
frontier, the possibility of a Russian invasion is
constantly apprehended by the frightened English
men."
An editorial in the same paper says :—
" England is intent upon attacking Afghanistan,
imitating Reynard, the fox, when charging the
innocent rabbit with beginning the feud ; but the
world knows the rights of the case, and will not be
deceived by these fraudulent tactics."
The statement that the German Government
hive shown a disposition to intervene in the
Afghan-European complications is erroneous.