The Eastern MenaceKegan, Paul, Trench & Company, 1881 - 344 Seiten |
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... Khiva , Bokhara , and Kokand , are already in the hollow of her hand . Her power consolidated , as it will be swiftly , with the modern rapid march of events , Afghanistan will stand to her in the same relation that Cashmere now holds ...
... Khiva , Bokhara , and Kokand , are already in the hollow of her hand . Her power consolidated , as it will be swiftly , with the modern rapid march of events , Afghanistan will stand to her in the same relation that Cashmere now holds ...
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... words in inverted commas are taken from the Queen's Speech two years ago , when Khiva was only threatened . After that conspicuous 1 Now eight years ago . display of weakness there was little hope that when the 72 THE EASTERN MENACE .
... words in inverted commas are taken from the Queen's Speech two years ago , when Khiva was only threatened . After that conspicuous 1 Now eight years ago . display of weakness there was little hope that when the 72 THE EASTERN MENACE .
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... Khiva to Merv , Herat and Candahar , from Bokhara and Samarcand to Balkh and Cabul , are infinitely more facile than any we could seize for our own advance . Thus the issues of the frontier are in other hands than ours , and the fallacy ...
... Khiva to Merv , Herat and Candahar , from Bokhara and Samarcand to Balkh and Cabul , are infinitely more facile than any we could seize for our own advance . Thus the issues of the frontier are in other hands than ours , and the fallacy ...
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... Khiva , to - morrow it will be Herat , and so on . But it does not suit certain of our statesmen or of our journalists to affect to believe either word or deed . They say that we receive friendly assurances when Russia says in so many ...
... Khiva , to - morrow it will be Herat , and so on . But it does not suit certain of our statesmen or of our journalists to affect to believe either word or deed . They say that we receive friendly assurances when Russia says in so many ...
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... Khiva and Bokhara on a Russian caravan . No such thing . We know to a certainty that every step taken by the far - seeing rulers of all the Russias from the day of the Great Peter up to the present time , has been part of a regular ...
... Khiva and Bokhara on a Russian caravan . No such thing . We know to a certainty that every step taken by the far - seeing rulers of all the Russias from the day of the Great Peter up to the present time , has been part of a regular ...
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