| Show Lumsden officially notified the English Eng-lish government last night that the Russians Rus-sians attacked the Afghans intrenched at Pendjeh and slaughtered 200 of the garrison gar-rison Seventy thousand British and Indians In-dians now stationed along or near the northern Indian frontier may it is thought reach Herat in time to preveni the capture of that important town by I the Russians The Ameer of Afghanistan still protests pro-tests his friendship to the British His army consists of nearly 70000 men and I the invaluable aid of such auxiliaries to British troops can hardly be estimated The capture of the Ameer to the British side was a shrewd piece of diplomacy on the part of Lord Dufferin Russia evidently evi-dently goes into the handicapped by a lack of statesmen |
