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Show (By W. U.Tolwach.) THE BAKCH ON U1IIVA. St. Petersburg, 6. A dispatch from Baker, on tho western coast of the Caspian Sca.datcd April 1, announced that the Tchgistchlai column would take the field against Khiva on tho 5th instant. The expedition against Khiva is in three detachments, the firpt starting start-ing from Orenburg concentrates at Unbaposa, and proceeds over the table of Uctijirst which begins 600 versta south of' Orenburg at the river Tzchai-jan. Tzchai-jan. Thero it will take six days drinking drink-ing wator, because a tupply will be unprocurable un-procurable UDtil tho springs at Amiz-ohahkutuk Amiz-ohahkutuk are reached The second Ateck Valley detachment will march through Astribin and must overcome the Turkomans before reaching Khiva. The third detachment, Btarting from Turkistand, will probably avoid the desert in the neighborhood of tho sea of Aral and march along the Sydira river to Petromosk, tbenoo it will take the banks of Diana-iaria river to the frontier of Khiva. The Khivan force is insigoificaot and its armament poor, the rifles being particularly defective. |