| Show RUSSIAN aggressiveness to ie no room for doubt that russia has ha revived her aggressive policy this thia means the reopening opening re of the eastern question M which has bae already produced numbers of bloody wars ware doubtless encouraged by the success of mr gladstone whose for eign policy when he la is in power to la comparatively passive the russian bear Bea rJ imagines be can tread on the tall tail of the british lion with impunity we have already alluded to the tact fact that has baa renewed his big encroachments encroach ments in the region which is in contiguous to british ludia india it was also published a few days ago that a conspiracy in which the rus sian government was wae flatly stated to be a party had been disclosed its purpose was to assassinate prince ferdinand of bulgaria at the close of the last russo busso turkish war the czar was forced koy by the european powers much against his will to agree to the preservation of the freedom and neutrality of bulgaria which to is a very important strategic point one of his big aims la is to control that country this athla is not practicable while prince ferdinand to is at the head of the bulgarian government now comes the rebellion of the havaran tribes against the ameer af afghanistan it was believed from the first fint that this insurrection was incited by russian bussian agents this point is in now placed beyond doubt by the capture by the ambers troop five russians samong among the rebellious bazaras Ha Haz aram they were placed in irons and forwarded to babul tabe ne capital of afghanistan these almost simultaneous move ments meets at three different strat strategic egie points are significant and will without doubt lead to carious complications if they had while a conservative administration was in undisputed power in great britain these encroachments encroach ments menis would doubtless have been met my y counter on the martof part of england as was the case came when similar attempts were made by russia a year ago |
