Show I LUMSDEN A AD GRANYILLE The Full Correspondence oi the I Afghan Dispute Brought to Ii gILt LONDON June 2A portion of the official papers relating to the attack by the Russians on tho Afghans on March 30th have been published They show that on March 29th Sir Peter Lumsclen telegraphed to the government gov-ernment that the Russians were moving heaven and earth to get the Afgans to fight and tint fighting was sure to take place On April Id he repeated his statement that the attack by General Komaroff upon the Afghans was deliberately planned The subject of arbitration was first proposed pro-posed by Lord Granville and M De Giers Russian Foreign Minister demurred sayiug that the Emperor of Germany would be the only fit person to arbitrate and he would refuse re-fuse Lord Granville retorted that the Emperor Em-peror must consent if asked The second set of Afghan dispatches show that on April 17th Lord Granville wrote to Sir Edward Thornton at St Petersburg as follows Baron De Staal informs me that he has received a dispatch from M De Giers ascribing the collision to the military fisnect of Sir Peter Tnmsflpns Rnnitnissinn which encouraged the Afgau pretensions and declining to admit that General Ko maroff provoked the collision On April 19th Earl Granville wrote to Edward Thornton declining to admit that Sir Peter Lumsdcns commission had any bearing bear-ing on the question and refuting M Do Giers statement that the English officers directed the Afghan attack England could not accept General KomarofFs account of I the affair as final BotJI sides must use every endeavor to ascertain the facts which I should be tried on the basis of the agreement agree-ment of March 16th and justice be done accordingly ac-cordingly M DeGiers in reply declined to sacrifice the interests of Russia or submit the Penjdeh affair to further inquiry Earl Granville replied to Baron DeStaal proposing propos-ing arbitration and resumption of frontier negotiations Baron DeStaal said he believed Russia would decline to agree to arbitration and even if she admitted ad-mitted the principle then she could only entrust the task to Emperor William who would decline Earl Granville replied that he had objection to Emperor William He thought that if both England and Russia asked him to arbitrate it would be impossible impossi-ble for him to refuse M DeGicrs then proposed pro-posed to neutralize the Penjdeh district pending pend-ing the frontier negotiations Earl Granville stipulated that both the Russian and Afghan soldiers be withdrawn from Penjdeh May 4th Earl Granville wrote Baron De Staal agreeing to resume negotiations and submit the Penjdsh affair to arbitration if it could not be settled otherwise |