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The Exeter Times, 1878-11-7, Page 2ENGLAND AND AFGHANISTAN. AN 1 LTDIATI:31 FI Oat ENGLAND. A Council of the English Cabiuet was iu session two and a quarter hours on Wednesday, 80th ult., when it wee decided to seed ria ultirntttunl to the Ameer before proceeding to ulterior pleasures, Tills ultimatum will sum- mon the Ameerto give,guarentees for tt future good understanding. It is not t thought the ultimation will cause any delay, as the answer of the Mutter must be received within a fortnight or three weeks, and the preparations of the army will be iu the meantime un- relaxed, C AL'SES Ole SiIL1.E ALI'S ANI- ;,lOSITYr. The Entity Telegraph says :—A rapid retrospect of our most recent relations with the Axueer ~rill suffice to illitatrate the position, anis to show why and where umbrage has beet taken by the Afghan e4iefteu. When Llost elahom. stied, the father of the present Ameer, died in 18113, Lord Lawrence recogniz- ed Shere Ali as his successor. The throne, however, was soon sleeken un der Mira, and two userpere in succes- siou ruled ill Cabal. Lord Lawrence recognized first one and then the oth- er as goiter Shore Ali, thanks to his eon, Y;tkut:ab Khali re aleed the throne, lard though be in his turn was again hailed as Ameer by the Indian Govern- rneut, hebad not forgotten that an o;wally rt -ally recognition bad strength- ened his two pretteeeeeors against him. lutdeed the remembrane'e of that pitifttt police: was ea vivid le the Atneer'a t iiud i iu7.8tle, when he visited Lord ilatyo at' Uluballa, that he did not hesitate to speak bitterly of it to the Viceroy. That was hie first grievance against ue. Bat lord 1I tyo won the Afgbau'd heart be the royal welcome and entertain- ment that was extended to him, and Shere Ali veturned home lamed for the time, if not contented. But the first questioa asked thitn on his return to Cabal wos, '•Did the Indian Gov- erneteut recognise Abdulla Jan as your heir?" and Shere Ali had to eoufese that the chief object of hie visit to Urn• belle hail not been obtained.—that, in• deed he had not even broached the sub- ject of the heirship at the fnrhar. The diplomacy that had thus bathed him Spero Mi in time began to took upon as It personal wrong, and iu his formal c'ttahtt;ue of grievances against the In- dian Goverulreut it stands second on the list. Five others fed a prominent place, namely, the despatch of an ein- bassaty direct to the Mir of Wakhan in - steed of through himself as th!tt chief's .uzerain ; the mediation of Lord Northbrook for Yal.koob Khan when he wits iluprieoned by his father; the So• ietatn arbitration, when the province it! dispute between Cant aril lrorsia,. wets adjudged to the latter ; the hear- ing refused to his complaints at the Peshawur Cnuforence iu 1870 ; the oc- cupation of Quetta. A few words will il- lu,:traate the validity or the reverse of each of these "grievaueee." The mis- sion to 1Vakhau was undoubtedly a breach of international etiquette, a Po- litical Office blunder, and Shere Ali was ;instilled in his complaint. The mediation iu favor of Yakoob Khan was without the province of the Indian Government, and, therefore, as all un- i,ecessary interference in the affairs of foreign potentates most be considered, ill-advised. Lord Northbrook, by im- plication, reproached the Alneer for itnuritoning his sou to whom he owed his throne, bat the Bnssiau General then on the Cabal frontier congratulat- ed him upon having got under lock and key so dangerous a rebel. 'You are net a kind and grateful father," said the utte. "You are a wise ruler," s+eld r Ali, the other. Mud Shere A ,, c om arpia g the two together—for ,both letters ar- rived in (label within a few hours of each other—found the Russian cougra- tulation more to his taste than the English admonition. 'On the next point, •the Seietan arbitration, it can can • only be said' that the matter before the Oommission was. it very delicate one, and that 'they decided as they thought right. That rnatry were found at the tilxta, and In.auy since, to quare rel with the award, dotes uot strengthen Shere Ali in his attitude of discontent. at the results of an arbitration to which h be had voluntarily referred his elatilne. The next grievance of the Peshawar Conference has been fairly stated. by: Sir Lewis Polley himself. The negoti- atious, he tells ne, came at once to a deadlock, because, on the Baitislt tide, n prelitninary disetiseiou of the Arneer's oowplaint'sctould tot be agreed to, i•tifl ou the Afghan, beceuse - Shere. Ali'ei condition (or future apuisisbttteilt—tltr. presence of to British ofciel at the Ca- hill Court. His last grievance on the list, the oeenpatiu.i of Quetta, ' cannot, event with the most iiidulgeint advo= c!.erv' of the 4rneee'a ,privilege to ,lee THE TIMES Norsk EB 7,11178 pleased at h. Now that it is en accom- plished fact, and he finds it to be a :strong bit in the mouth of Cabal, the Ameer protests. But the time for protest , has passed. 'When the two countries were ou friendly terms any opposition from him would no doubt have been received with defereuce; but uaw the immense stretetio value of the position has been made prominent by the rupture of those friendly relit - teens, objection to our preseuce at Quetta must be futile.. RUSSIAN OPINION. The semi-official lord, in an article on the subject of England and Afghan- istan, says :—The questiou of Afghan- istan is treated by the London press with the absenee of sang froial and with the febrile agitation which char- acterize the lt.uglish policy uuder the present. Government. One gentleman recommends the forcible anuexatien of Cabot if Sheri Ali wial not give in hie complete submission to elle Etegli;`it view. We must admit that we can- not understand this precipitate and dangerous means of sealvuig the "pee. tiou. It may be saidthat the pardon. litre published after the eveut of the Russi:tu expedition beyond the Oxus has, terrified t o l ngiieh, and !trounc- ed upon them the effect of an over- whelluingrreveletiuu, 11,e if the waiter iu question, ltr presence Of alt DAAli. newt war,, presented anything abnorm- al or unfursetin. It wad very uatural that Russia, threatened with a mati- citne bloeelele, !monk' eettl.eator to .e•'k her enemies at that point where it was believed they were vulnerable, creel should melte it div!,c.ian in the dins. tiara of India to the expeet•d tet teak of the Indian caautiugeuts tt';tti' petted to Eitrope. It is true that Hitt effective of these contingents wee ;putt sufficient t.i peaceably conqueror eyrie. Item Tar.. key, and that the fire which Indiana troops were destined to light on the shortie of the Black Sea reduced itself to a harmless :Haab. Bat the most elementary prudence recommended to the Russian (*averment to take this demonstration as s serious one. When peace tr'as made the exliibittull of the O pus became a dead letter, and will only be revived as a measure of defence. England is probably aware of this ; but the mere eventuality of e Huainan advance in Lite direction of the Indian territory ie suflletent to terrify her. The idea of leaving a frontier contign• nus to a great Power is insupportable to the English nation, which has up to the presout been rejoicing in the hues that they eau carry war iuto the coun- try of another Power, anal at the salve time themselves retrain unassailable, No donbt it is convenient not to have neighbors, but it le only possible to es. cape from this by remaining at home and becoming a hermit. Besides, a people aatunot expect to unite the ad- vsntages of an iusnlar position with those contiueutal posaessitlne. iilore- over, is not the British Empire in Am- erica contiguous to the United States ? It is true that they rail rely better up- on the loyalty of the eitizeua of the Do - then on the Hlndoos. This contact which is so much feared should not be sought by England, but this is what the British G.,vetuinent ie doing i12 desiriug to aunex Afgllitiiistatu 10 their possessions. In ease of war Rus- sia would have a much better chance of meeting England encaml'e.i beyond the Iliolalayae amidst a populatiou ready to revolt than intrenched in the great mountain wall close to their re- s:nu'ces and surrouuded by subjects al- ready accustomed to their yoke. Would it not be relatively easy for Russia to unset that precarious fabric, the fall of which would have a dangerous effect u Iudia ? In fine, L;ugland would find her settee', and perhaps the best for her Indian interests in a correct and loyal policy towards 1tuseie, who has no desire to be agressive iit Asia, and which she never will be uulaas she be fereed thereto. THE PROBABILITIES AND PROS - PE CTS OF A. CAMPAIGN: The Times contains an interesting ar- ticle on Affghauistan, • from which we make the following extracts :— The reap shows) that at lofty chain of mountains, the summits of which rise in tome cases to 18,000 intervene be- tween out Indian `.dominions and the Aeneer'tr territory, and the .chain is no mere sareeu behind which it. an army' can secr.ttly collect and through' which it min suddenly ditch uli•.an unsuspect- ing foe, but' itis it broad` tract of alt uutainous laird, :inhospitable to the >last degree, and 'inhabited bybatimr- one te•ibes, °whims, no =natter, and con- stautly.at feud with other. It 'ite pierced by eumeroue passages, the beat known of which are the Khyberand the Bolan, through .whica our torceein the Atighan war advanced cn: Cabal ; bnt there are dew 'fewer'then :'17 .well.definod ready, practicable fov.the moven eats of light- ly equipped'"columns, end Certainly foul - f 'nits where he choose,, be entertained up whioli guns eouhi be taken.. These i : e ,4,- cause ••f complains. Sheri Ali are aouually'' traversed ily (Anisette; of f, K P end take thence English waree i11 ex. change. The great . drawback to there beiug utilised is the event of war being forced upon us is the fact that our own means of conuntinicati In within our border are of the worst description, so that the difficulties a force would en- cctinter before it could reacts the east- ere end of the Klemm or the Gutnal pastes would be almost es great as those to be inet with in the mouutaiue them- selves. It ie. therefore only necessary to take into consideraticn the Khyber and Bolan. The former is within 17C guiles from, Jhelum, the present ter- miuus of the Punjab railway systeln, whith whirls it is connected by the Grand Trunk road, probably one of the very best military highways in the world. .Grouped around the railway terminus, or between it and the Khyber, are the military cautonmeuts of Jhelum Sealkote, Tallagaou,Rawul Pindi, Now- shera, Abbottabed,Hoti-liardan,Oamp. bellpore, Peshawur and Rollat. TUE 11U Blit P.1.BS. In spealtin;f of aa. A#f an war, and more eepecudly the Khyber Pass, pupa - lar opinion appears to Cling to the re. mewbrance of the misfortunes that overtook the i11 -fatted eepedltion of 1889 and more especially the dieastrouit re- by 300 cavalry for patrolling purposes, treat through rho Koord Kabul Parse would be ample. from Cabal from Jclalabad , but it xllls rnerteneus•.s ai* TUB C.tuPAION. should ever be remembered Hiatt miser- The ft►rcing of the Khyber and the able want of agreement between the necoseary eoustructiou of a road Brae., military aud political chiefs of that ticalio for wheeled traffic to Cabel force was the primary cause of the die - would be but the eommaucement of the deter, while the urine possessed by the Queen's troops in three days (old dint trials of an Atli han war. The fortresses heck Brown Bess) were far inferior t0. of Jebtlabatl, (abul, soli i ltuzuee would the long jazatils of the AfT;;ltems. Nat', have to be reduced ; of their present with rilieti cannon and breech -loaders condition little or lauthillg is knows „ere are far more completely equipped, but from Aeiettic sources we have learnt wale the experiences of the Abys' inion that, subsequent to our departure from end :1.ehluttee expeditions certainly rho cturtry, Duot N1.1,o.ned spent much prompt the hope that the military and labour ttud money iu perfecting their political chieftainship will be vested in defencea, and, altbou,th it is improbable one roan. Thar the Khyber Pasa pre- that they have been completed on Any dents slight difficulty to a erell•haudled °try setootilic plans,. it is beyond all force is evident from the fact that in dunbt that they will not faro ttith the 1539 Culonel Wade furcetlitaet the head tete Ghazni fell in the last campaign. of an irregular cantiagent penetratint{ Admitti"g that we baro naly Affgbau After the annexation of Pesliewur by the Sikhs, Dost Mellowed paid them only 20,0('0. During oar occupation of Cabal, 1839.42, we pails them 125,- 009 rupees annually, and after our withdrawal Dost Mellowed eautiriued a payment of e$87,000. At his death these allowances were stopped, nor has Sbere Ali renewed them, Consequent- ly his bold on the Afridi and Shiuwari tribes, who virtually hold the pass from Jamrood to Dhaka, has been much weakened. To work on this will now be Lord Lyttou's great object. If we can bay the Khyber.Aialliks over to the side of the British, the forcing of the rase will be mush simplified ; and, avaricious to a degree, faithless to his salt, utterly regardless of tribal honor or family affection. the Afghan is ready to sell his sword to the highest bidder. Once through the poise, there appears small reason to believe we should be f unable to keep is open for the free transmission of sups*lies. Fortified posts at judiciously selreted spots, coupled with liberal tlotcers to rile neighboring cbieftaius, aro all that is requisite. An eminent authority heel given it as his aprnion that 4,000 in. Peawith 12 non stain guns, aided I front Peehawur to Jnlalabak, with at nrgAnisation, unaided by European (41" r t' against, we Omit reit pure loss of about 180 Bleu. In 1t181:2(tett- cent o war a ' R Gett- ers Polleclt forced it by she jug tsar two columns to operate with. Profit- ing from the xnvtads below, whileing by past !emus, it would be eriuii- lttt+0 columns of twelve cotnpauilla emelt on either flank pnt+heel the enemy from ridge to ridge. His casualties were 120. On his return march he lost but iib mean. The Khyber Pass may be said, general. ly speaking, to commence at Jaime) ad, 10 miles west of 1'eshhwur, and to ex tend as far as Dbaltn,e, distaueo of ttbuut 85 -biles. The netnitl entrance to the defile, however is at ICadhaln, A place three miles t est of Jaearood, which it a small village, surrounded by a wall. Thore,etill Pxist the ruins of a Sikh fort, built iu 1857, after the defeat of the Afghan army ou the adjacent plains, by the Khalsa army, ender Ilttrree Singh, Within 1,000 yards of Ka:latm the gorge narrows to 150 yards, with steep precipitous cliffs ou either stand, Bu- tween this and the Afghan frontier fort of Ali Mitsjid, distant about ten miles, the mouutains ou either hand are about 1,500 ft. in height, slaty, bare, and to all appearance inaccessible ; the width +f the pass varies from 290 to 40 feet. FOC a distance of 21 miles beyond Ali 11luajid the pass retains its difficult ellaracter. It then enters the Lala Beg Valley, about six miles in leugth, with au etverage width of a mile and a half. The western end of the valley, however, finds the road entering a :till narrower defile, there being scarcely room for two camels to pees each other. The I.undi Khans Pass is distant from this poiut about a utile and a half ; the ascent over it is narrow, rugged, steep, and geuerttlly the most difficult part of the road ; guns could uot be drawn here except by men, and then only after the improvement of the track. The descent, however, is along a well - made load, and is not so difficult. Oa the west side of the pass the mountains gradually open out, and lose ranch of their ivaucessible nature. Dhaka is distant about night miles, and here the defile ends, Difficult as the Iteyber to force, it isevident that what Wade and Pollock did 40 years ago, can, if necessary, he done again. leforeovel:,, cur'mewled:le of these mountain ran- ged bee greatly increased of late years, sold several roads are well-knowu which completely turn Ali. Musjid, the most. 'farwideb1e obstacle between Pesllarwur and Jelalaba 1. Among these are the. Tartar& roans, which eutere ,.the bilis about nine miles north of Jarnrood at+t1 joins ,thee mein. route int Dhaka ; the Kadapit, road and end ono,ihrbugh the Bata Valley.bothf;avoi l Ali hIusjid,. are prao-. tic>l,ble for ligh'ly-equipped columns, and doubtless .would be,: Made use of wore we,colnpei1ed ,to force the. Khyber. TAR BOBhxIt,TRIBES, It•IriusI' fro borne ln' miutt that. the tribe's) residing in the pass and iti; lin- Me tiitte 'vicinity, thought nominallyI• Owet►l,legitfnoe to the Ameer of Al; ghnaiatan„;yet are powerful eiroutrh•to deran'dr"ontl obtain Nubeidies' free. him In rtitill+n' fotr 'the' privilege they grout ie perrnitting,,the highway to be made use of.. In the time of the Durarli :1 e•., ,,..,•.,,,;:� '. • ..il t • ierteatien whew Atf'han inerchants, who bring the pro- per "hirusa!If ar i i3uae of Central Aida Into Hit d,stttta that iu atter n elot,ttug,.they etiu suit the , coiled 120,000 rupees per wunuln, mostfartlµiountantes. • nail to repeat the blunders of 1880, told stand in too small a force. The prepaid leader of the mission, Sir NevilleCbam- berlain, had bitter experience of she folly of ander estimating a foe in the failure of the Utnballa Expedition, so that it may be assumed be will insist en an atdeganto army necotntlauying hits should he be de putted to brim; the Anienr to terms. Twenty-five thousand men for the Northern or Khyber col. num, and 1:=,000 fur the southern fordo, will be ample, without leaving too wide a margin for detachments ue- ceesarily left behind to keep opeu Cani- mnttica.ions. The Bosun 3'atss, which was the canoe of a.ucii ottomans loss among the army of the Indus, now has a fair road running through it, so that we may expect nu expeditionary force to traverse it without its cavalry brig- ade being reduced to ' au effective strength of 1,000 cares, as wee the case in 1889 ; and we way rest :tour- ed recent experience has taught us that 88,000 camp followers aro not ne- cessery for an army of 9,600 men. Be- tweeu Khelat and °ano her there are some very bad grounds, a lack of for - nate. and an utter absence of water. These drawbacks are known, and so can be provided against. Wo must have no repetition of the mistakes that dost us 16,000 lives in 1841—no divid- ed military and political commands, no effete generals, rao under estimating the value of our foes, 13o faith in Af- ghan treaties. 4:41: xai. i ar r 47 '91n,Y eMeaI : le:11n4:g se t� 0 a.q attca,e0- g lfa Wonderful Discovery. EMPaESSLIRE. THE FRIEND OF MANKIND. 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