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is disintegrated and it was in anarchy; while the total cost of the war
it exceeded winds pound of millions, while being on the same amount as had
state spent in the first great war of 1839-41.
The military operations in them had been conducted in everything
with great ability in a more difficult country and the troops, both
British and Native, it had him it tried admirable soldiers; but as
you greet the policy that conducted us in war, it seems to have been as
unfair at the beginning as it was unlucky in result. The facts, however,
speak to them.
I CAPITULATE III
FRONTIER POLICY SINCE SECOND AFGHAN WAR, INCLUDED THE CONSIGNMENT Á. CHITRAL
Further Advance of Russia--Merv Occupied--the Lord the Frontier of Ridgeway Di the west
Committee of 1885--The accord of Durand with Abdul Rahman--The Chitral
The consignment of 1895: his/her Results--Sudden Burst of Frontier Tribe,
1897.
The reaction after the war naturally tilted the authorities in the double
countries to leave alone policy of frontier, to all the events for the time.
Our declared object for years had been to make strong Afghanistan,
friendly, and independent. The first ones had not certainly been
finished, and the other two were doubtful. Anchor, from patience,
conciliation and benefits, are probable that we hope during time that
the wounds that we had inflicted would gradually be recovered, and a more stable
condition achieves. For one short period it was this way; but then the old bugbear
of Russian advance on the dark wastes of Central Asia again
supervened, and it practiced his/her harmful influence on our policy.
In 1881 and the following years, Russia, while completing her/it
conquests, and improving his/her communications in the south-western part of
Central Asia, had involved in hostility rather you prolong with the
Tekke-Turcomans, ending in their subjugation and in the occupation of
the long one, desolate strip of country that extends eastwards from the
Caspian that had been until here independent. A platform was gradually
built by the neighborhood of Kras-novodsk, on the Caspian one toward