The Coming Struggle for India: Being an Account of the Encroachments of Russia in Central Asia, and of the Difficulties Sure to Arise Therefrom to EnglandCassell, 1885 - 214 頁 |
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... Sarakhs , but more particularly in the districts adjoining the newly acquired Russian territory , namely in Kabushan , Budjnurd , and Deregöz , people are now most anxious to exhibit their sympathies with the northern conqueror ...
... Sarakhs , but more particularly in the districts adjoining the newly acquired Russian territory , namely in Kabushan , Budjnurd , and Deregöz , people are now most anxious to exhibit their sympathies with the northern conqueror ...
第 51 頁
... Sarakhs , must be looked upon as a natural consequence of this central position . It had been from immemorial times a highway between the khanates and Persia ; and Russia having done away with the Turkoman nuisance , is almost sure to ...
... Sarakhs , must be looked upon as a natural consequence of this central position . It had been from immemorial times a highway between the khanates and Persia ; and Russia having done away with the Turkoman nuisance , is almost sure to ...
第 76 頁
... Sarakhs , of a place which lies beyond the so - called Turkoman country , and could have nothing to do with the civilising measures taken against the Turkomans . I call this new Russian move a surprise , although , from the very ...
... Sarakhs , of a place which lies beyond the so - called Turkoman country , and could have nothing to do with the civilising measures taken against the Turkomans . I call this new Russian move a surprise , although , from the very ...
第 77 頁
... of Shekivan , Rusenek , Shebesh , and Tirpul , and turning near Kuhsan , goes in an almost northerly direction along the eastern border of Persia , passing Sarakhs to the so - called Tedjend oasis , RUSSIA'S DESIGNS UPON HERAT . 77.
... of Shekivan , Rusenek , Shebesh , and Tirpul , and turning near Kuhsan , goes in an almost northerly direction along the eastern border of Persia , passing Sarakhs to the so - called Tedjend oasis , RUSSIA'S DESIGNS UPON HERAT . 77.
第 78 頁
... Sarakhs to the so - called Tedjend oasis , where it loses itself in the sands . Now the country between these two rivers , inter- sected by other minor rivulets , such as the Kash , the Egri - Goek , the Gurlan - Su , the Khombou - Su ...
... Sarakhs to the so - called Tedjend oasis , where it loses itself in the sands . Now the country between these two rivers , inter- sected by other minor rivulets , such as the Kash , the Egri - Goek , the Gurlan - Su , the Khombou - Su ...
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第 60 頁 - to push forward its encroachments as fast and as far as the apathy or want of firmness of other Governments would allow it to go, but always to stop and retire when it was met with decided resistance, and then to wait for the next favourable opportunity to make another spring on its intended victim. In furtherance of this policy, the Russian
第 61 頁 - Petersburg Government adopts them as a fait accompli which it did not intend, but cannot in honour recede from. If the local agents fail, they are disavowed and recalled, and the language previously held is appealed to as a proof that the agents have overstepped their instructions. This was exemplified in the treaty of Unkiar-Skelessi, and in the exploits of
第 61 頁 - in Persia. Orloff succeeded in extorting the treaty of Unkiar-Skelessi from the Turks, and it was represented as a sudden thought, suggested by the circumstances of the time and place, and not the result of any previous instructions; but, having been done, it could not be undone. On the other hand,
第 176 頁 - annas) each, or about the average earnings of five working days. Traders pay 3s. 3d. (26 annas) each. But any native of India who does not trade or own land, and who chooses to drink no spirituous liquor or to use no English cloth or iron, need pay in taxation only about 7d. a year on account of the salt he consumes
第 84 頁 - to the Persian frontier, in the neighbourhood of Sarakhs, should be formally and definitely laid down, and that he had instructed Prince Lobanoff to endeavour to induce her Majesty's Government to agree to the adoption of measures for that purpose.
第 147 頁 - It will be in the end our duty to organise masses of Asiatic cavalry, and to hurl them into India, under the banner of blood and pillage, as a vanguard, as it were, thus reviving the times of Tamerlane.
第 157 頁 - in India, except that great majority of the cultivators who will go on cultivating without talking politics till the crack of doom ? Every Englishman, from the Governor-General downwards, will be disquieted ; they will feel that a great foreign Power has
第 61 頁 - failed in getting possession of Herat, in consequence of our vigorous measures of resistance ; and as they had failed they were disavowed and recalled, and the language previously held at
第 63 頁 - of 53 companies of infantry, 25 sotnias of Cossacks, 54 guns, 6 mortars, 2 mitrailleuses, 5 rocket divisions, and 19,200 camels, with a complement of about 14,000 men,
第 157 頁 - on his own side of the fence, and he may make no seeming attempt to come over; but you know he is there for no good, and you do your best to dislodge him, and do not rest