Show GRIMVISAGED WARn WAR-n May Come to That Yet Between England and Russia An Ominous Aspect Thrown Upon the Peace Negotiations A Russian Fleet of Thirtytwo 3Ien oMVar Ordered to Sea Outfitting Russian ITIeuofVar ST PETERSBURG April 20 Armine menofwar at Cronstadt continues Orders Or-ders were issued today to have all of them put to sea Advices from Samarcana state that General KomarofPs victory over the Afghans has favorably impressed the inhabitants of Bokhara THE RETREAT OF TIlE BRITISh The report gains ground that England has made fresh proposals which Russia is inclined to accept The newspapers here welcome what they call the retreat of the British and agree that peace is assured THE TERMS Or TIlE BRITISH DEFEAT LONDON April 20The Standard be lieves that the following are the basis of the reported compromise between England and Russia Russia consents to an immediate meeting between Zelenoi and Sir Peter Lumsden at PulIKhatun Russia and England having agreed as to the limit of the zone to be debated to be the territory between the Lessar line on the south and the line from AkTepe to PulIKhatun on the north excluding PulI Khatun and including Pendjeh i Russia renews her assurance that no further fur-ther advance will be made provided the Afghans do not attempt to regain their former positions The commission are instructed to find a practicable frontier fron-tier north of Meruehok and south of Pul1Katnn restoring Zulfikar and Ak robat to Afghanistan Pendjeh is to be ceded to Russia and a friendly agreement to be made with the Ameer LONDON April 20A special message from Sir Edward Thorne British ambassador ambas-sador at St Petersburg has arrived herewith here-with dispatches reporting the result of the communication with M Do GiersRus rian Foreign Minister with reference to the Afghan frontier AN ADVANCE IN CONSOLS LONDON April 20 1230 p mCon sols opened at 95 for both accounts and soon advanced to 96 Russian securities securi-ties opened at 88 130 p mConsols 96 1116 VIENNA April Frcndenblatt learns that the English government has warned English traders at the Black Sea ports to be prepared to leave RUSSIA is CROWDING ENGLAND LONDON April 20 The situation of the RussiaAfghan question seems again to be very serious owing to Russia increasing in-creasing her demands to such an extent that it will be impossible for England to accept such terms M De Giers Rua sian premier who is evidently determined to profit by his recent successes in negotiating ne-gotiating with the English Foreign Office has apparently decided not to yield a single iota to Earl Granville It is ndw Seared that Russia has overstepped the bounds of British forbearance as it is i asserted as-serted on high authority that England will never succumb to these latter demands of the Russian premier A large number of important dispatches passed between the English and the Russian foreign offices on Saturday and Sunday All members of the Cabinet remained in London Sunday Sun-day awaiting the reply from Russia to the latest from Earl Granville Dispatches Dis-patches from Cronstadt state that the Russian fleet there has been ordered to prepare for war instantly and that thtrty two menofwar have hoistod their flags and put to sea THE BREACH IS WIDENING LONDON April 20There has been a continuous exchange of dispatches between be-tween Earl Granville and De Giers since Saturday It is apparent that the breach is widening LONDON April 203 p mThero is now considerable excitement on the exchanges ex-changes Consols have fallen 3 in the last half hour and are now 96 for both Russian securities have fallen to 863 330 p m Consols 96 316 THE GOVERNMENT MAKES NO STATEMENT LoNDONApril 20The Cabinet met today to-day to consider the contents of a number num-ber of important dispatches just received from Lord Duflerin Earl Granville British Foreign Minister I Minis-ter stated this afternoon in the House of Lords that the government had received a dispatch from Sir Peter Lumsden The contents in the dispatch I Earl Granville said the government was not prepared to make public any further than to state that it contained a contradiction of the account of the Pendjeh incident as given by General Komaroff The government is Earl Granville said expecting further telegrams from Sir Peter Lumsden and until they were received the government would not be prepared to make any further fur-ther statement RUMORED THAT DE GIERS MAY RESIGN FRANKFORTONTHEMAIN April 20 The Frankfort Gazette publishes a dispatch from St Petersburg to the effect that the resignation of De Giers Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs becomes p daily more probable MORE TALK FROM DUFFERIN LAHORE India April 20Earl Duffer in Viceroy of India in an address to the Indian Association again referred to the marked manner of the offers made by the native princes and people to give England assistance in any struggle which she might have with Russia and assured his hearers England would know how to use this help when occasion required it TIlE PALL MALL GAZETTES STATEMENT PallMall Ga LONDON April 20The all zelle states this afternoon that despite the prevalent alarmist rumors it is in a between to state that the differences position and Russia are in a fair tween England way toward settlement GLADSTONE EXPLA1NS Gladstone in the House of Commons state this afternoon made the followfng on Friday received ment The government ceived a dispatch from SirPeter lumsden to not an answer but the telegram was inquiries and instructions dispatched our to him on the 10th instant It will be necessary to await that answer before we can make any statement The telegram received from Sir Peter Lumsden Friday tended to confirm his previous statements state-ments which certainly apparently conflicted con-flicted with General Koinaroffs statements I state-ments |