Show FOREIGN Intense Excitement in Eng land RUSSIA THREATENS WAR Foreign Securities Falling Under the News WELLS MANIFESTO England and Russia LONDON March 10Tlie Times in an editorial says Wo believe tho main body of Gen Lumsdens troops have occupied oc-cupied Robat Pass It is hoped that Gen Lumsdens measures will prevent tho capture of the key of India by a coup de main If Russia is bent upon war she has many vulnerable points If she forces England to hostilities she cannot imagine the struggle to be l confined to the remote regions of Central Asia A Persian paper says At a Cabinet council at Cabul the Aineer and spveral generals being present it was decided to ask the English government to treat with Russia for the restoration of Suli Khatum and Penjdeh but not to make Russian occupation a casus belli the places not being of strategic importance Sir Peter Lumsden telegraphs via Meshed Afghan scouts report that a small detachment of Russians advanced to Nihalsheni the furthest southwest I point on the HoriRud claimed for the Russian frontier The advance does not complicate the work of delimitation but endangers collision with Afghans ST PKTKKSIJURO March lOThe Noroe Vremija expresses tho opinion that the dispute on the Afghan question arose i from an erroneous impression of England as to the true positition of Russia in Central Cen-tral Asia England now recognizes her mistake and wishes a modus vivendi to avoid occupying Herat Russia will be compelled to interfere for the sake of prestige Russia will not surrender a hairs breadth of her present possessions nor will she abate her moderate demands Other Russian papers have similar comments com-ments |