| Show I CANCELED CONTRACTS i t Secretary Whitney Notifies Roach That the Cruisers Are Not on Time Active War Preparations for Fun on the Afghan Frontier The Cholera Causing the Death or 1000 Spaniards Daily 1I 1 fliisia Suspicious oi Salisbury I ST PETEBSBUBQ August iAu imperial council of war has ordered the formation of a separate artillery department of the army for the transCaspian Russian provinces A majority of the Russian newspapers profess to have no confidence in the apparently pacific pa-cific declarations of Prime Minister Salis bury They base their distrust on the perceptible per-ceptible and constant increase of Englands military preparations The Journal de St Petersburg says Reports Re-ports of the concentration of Afghan troops I in the vicinity of Penjdeh and dispatch thither of more Russian soldiers are uncon I firmed |
