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The Russian Position in Central Asia,

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ST. PETERSBURG, March 19.

The Russian Cabinet has forwarded a circular to
its diplomatic agents abroad, of which the following
summary presents the principal features :
" The position of Russia in Central Asia is
analogous to that of all civilised States who, find-
ing themselves in contact with half-savage and
nomadic tribes, are compelled—as much in the

interest of their frontiers as in that of their coin-
mercial relations—to take measures for imposing
respect upon inconvenient and turbulent neigh-
bours. Such has been the task of the United States
in America, of Holland in her colonies, of England
in India. All have been forced to follow this course,
in which ambition has very little part, and wherein
the great difficulty consists in knowing where to
stop. Such also, according to the Russian circular,
is the reason which has actuated Russia in establish-
ing herself upon the one side at Syr-Daria, and
upon the other at Lake Issyk-Koul, and in conso-
lidating these two lines by advanced posts, which
have gradually been pushed forward into the heart
of those distant regions, without, however, securing
the permanent tranquillity of the frontiers of the
empire. For, first, between the extreme points of
this double line there is an immense unoccupied
space, in which the frays of pillaging tribes continue
to paralyse colonisation and hamper trades through
caravans. Further, the constant fluctuations of
politics in those countries must be considered.
Turkestan and Kokhand, now united,now separated,

always at war, either with each other or with Bok-
hara, render fixed relations and regular intercourse
utterly impossible.

" The circular next points out that the Cabinet
of St. Petersburg is nevertheless unwilling to adopt
the line of policy England has followed in India by
subjugating in detail, by force of arms, the small
adjoining States which have rendered themselves
obnoxious to their neighbours. Russia desires not
to aggrandise herself beyond measure in Central
Asia, but to consolidate the organisation of the pro-
vinces she possesses. Taking up this point of view,
the Russian Government has determined upon three
principal measures. First, it has ordered that the
two fortified lines, the one reaching from the Chinese
frontier to Lake Issyk-Koul, the other extending
from the Sea of Aral to Syr-Dari, should be united
by fortified points, so as to place all the points in a
position mutually to support each other, and not
to leave any gap through which the invasions of the
nomadic tribes can be carried out with impunity.
It has been further decided that, when the line is
thus completed, advanced forts shall be established
in sufficiently fertile places, not only to.secure their
provisionment, but also to facilitate regular coloni-
sation, an essential condition of the future prosperity
of the country and of the civilisation of the neigh-
bouring tribes. Lastly, this fortified line must be
fixed in a definitive manner, in order that the Rus-
sian Government may escape dangerous encroach-
ments, which, from reprisal to reprisal,
would
culminate in a policy of unlimited extension.
" The Russian circular concludes by alluding to
the mission often attributed to Russia—viz., to
carry civilisation into the Asiatic countries adjoin-
ing the empire. Civilisation possesses no . more
efficacious agent than commercial relations ; and
these, which everywhere require order and stability,
render a radical transformation of manners in Asia
essential. Above all, it is important to make
Asiatics understand that it will be more to their
advantage to favour and protect trade through
caravans than to plunder the traders.
In allusion to this subject, the official Journal

de St. Petersburg replies to an article of the Moscow
Gazette. The latter paper had observed that before
pursuing civilising missions in Central Asia, Russia
had vital interests to protect and develop in her
western and southern provinces. The official
journal says :—' The object of the military and ad-
ministrative measures carried out in those distant
regions has in no way been to extend the limits of
the empire, and to fix and settle those limits by a
safe and solid boundary. To realise those conditions,
that frontier must present a line without solution
of continuity, offer facilities for defence, provision-
ment, and colonisation, unite as much as possible
the nomadic populations whose vicinity is always
inconvenient and, lastly, stop at the point where
it would encounter populations attached to the soil,