. Russia's railway advance into Central Asia; . Map showing Central Asian Railway IN RELATION TO THE AFGHAN FRONTIER AS FINALLYDELIMITED IN 1885. # Moscozu and India. 39 ments ; and there is certainly no necessity forus, of all people in the world, to lead her on todo so. It is not, however, the imperfections of thispart of the frontier which need give any cause offear that the Russians will ever wish to overstepit ; the source of possible trouble is rather to befound in the inseparable faults of Asiatic rule onthe opposite side. During the recent suppres-sion of rebellion in Afghan Turkistan,
. Russia's railway advance into Central Asia; . Map showing Central Asian Railway IN RELATION TO THE AFGHAN FRONTIER AS FINALLYDELIMITED IN 1885. # Moscozu and India. 39 ments ; and there is certainly no necessity forus, of all people in the world, to lead her on todo so. It is not, however, the imperfections of thispart of the frontier which need give any cause offear that the Russians will ever wish to overstepit ; the source of possible trouble is rather to befound in the inseparable faults of Asiatic rule onthe opposite side. During the recent suppres-sion of rebellion in Afghan Turkistan, andthe subsequent Bloody Assizes held inthat region by Abdurahman Khan for thepurpose of punishing the accomplices of IshaakKhan, and while the Russians were raisingsomething like an alarm in consequence, mostEnglish writers and speakers on the subjectseemed to think that every possible cause ofcomplaint on the part of the Russians wasremoved by the authentic contradiction ofthe alleged hostile intentions of Abdurahmanagainst Russia. This was simply begging thequestion, as nobody in Russia seriously believedfor a moment in the hostile int
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