The M. P. For Russiareminiscences Correspondence of Madame Olga Novikoffw; T. Stead201909 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The M. P. For Russiareminiscences Correspondence of Madame Olga Novikoffw; T. Stead201909

No sooner was the Russo-Turkish War at an end than we were confronted by its hateful sequence in the shape of war in Afghanistan and an insurrection in Macedonia.

When Lord Beaconsfield was menacing Russia with war in Europe, and secretly preparing an expedition of Indian troops to seize Cyprus, with or without the consent of the Sultan, to hold it as place d'armes against the Tsar, the Russians on their side had been preparing to make reprisals. By an agreement between Russia and England, entered into when Mr. Gladstone was in office, Afghanistan was recognised as a territory in the British sphere of interest within which Russia undertook not to interfere. No Russian agent was accredited to Cabul. The Ameer was subsidised and armed by the Indian Government, in order to enable him to hold Afghanistan as a buffer state, independent, but in friendly relations with the British.

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