[333] This officer wrote to the Globe on January 25, 1881, stating that he had fortified two other posts east of Denghil Tepe. This led Skobeleff to push on to Askabad after the capture of that place; but he found no strongholds. See Marvin's Russian Advance towards India, p. 85.
[334] Parl. Papers, Central Asia, No. 1 (1880), pp. 167-173, 182.
[335] Siege and Assault of Denghil Tepe. By General Skobeleff (translated). London, 1881.
[336] Russia in Central Asia in 1889. By the Hon. G.N. Curzon (1889), p. 83.
[337] C. Marvin, Merv, the Queen of the World (1881); E. O'Donovan, The Merv Oasis, 2 vols. (1882-83), and Merv (1883).
[338] See his reports in Parl. Papers, Central Asia, No. 1 (1884), pp. 26, 36, 39, 63, 96, 106.
[339] Ibid. p. 119.
[340] Bismarck: Some Secret Pages of his History, vol. iii. pp. 124, 133 (Eng. ed.).
[341] See Parl. Papers, Central Asia, No. 1 (1885), for General Lumsden's refutation of Komaroff's misstatements; also for the general accounts, ibid. No. 5 (1885), pp. 1-7.
[342] J. Morley, Life of Gladstone, vol. iii. p. 184.