. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across CHARGE OF RUSSIAN CAVALRY AGAINST TURCOMANS. 456 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. man district, and the Government told liim lie conld have anything hewanted in men or mnnitions of war. The Government had a hundred miles of railway material somewhereon its sonth-western frontier, which was intended for use in case of thefailure of the Berlin Congress. Skobeleff asked for this material, and itwas at once transferred to the Caspian.
. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across CHARGE OF RUSSIAN CAVALRY AGAINST TURCOMANS. 456 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. man district, and the Government told liim lie conld have anything hewanted in men or mnnitions of war. The Government had a hundred miles of railway material somewhereon its sonth-western frontier, which was intended for use in case of thefailure of the Berlin Congress. Skobeleff asked for this material, and itwas at once transferred to the Caspian. lie changed the base of opera-tions from Krasnovodsk to Mikhailovsk, and at once began the construc-tion of the line. The whole movement was made so quietly that hardlyanything was known of the work until the track had been laid about half-way to Kizil Arvat, one hundred and forty-four miles from Mikhailovsk. Skobeleff could not wait for the completion of the railway. Whilethe road was being constructed he pushed forward to Bami, a strong pointin the Akhal oasis, where he bnilt a fort, and gradually collected the ma-terials for the siege of Geok Tep
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