Arizona republican., 1904-10-06
After Disposins of Japan, Says Prince Oukhtomski, We Must Invade India.

After Disposing of Japan, Says Prince
 Oukhtomski, We Must Invade India.
 The strangest attitude which I have been able to notice in st. Petersburg Is that of a group of Russians, rather small in number but confident, religions and patriotic. For them the present war is what religious people call srial which Heaven sends upon a coun- try for it's sins. They insist that Rus sia never did anything. and never thought of doing anything, which could be interpreted as a menace or an invasion of the rights of a neighbor. As it is averred that the Emperor did not desire war, it is clear for them that there was no cause for war, and that. consequently. the treachery of the Jap anese is plain to all eyes. Everybody knows that Russia needed a port in free water, and nobody had a right to ask her why she went to seek it i'll China.
 But the war broke out. Very we'll i they said; it is a war that we did not want; and the best proof that we did not desire it lies in the fact that. after a lapse of six months, we are not yet | entirely prepared for it. But this war, | like all our trials, will prove to be great blessing for Russia It will put l | RussiGn people, and, for compensation 1t will give to Russia the sovereignty of most of Asia. We will not draw a kopeck from Japan ruined; but we will take securities-first, the islands in the strait of COrea, then Corea itself which We will join to that Manchuua which
 we shall have well earned, after having Inot only civilized it, but also sprinkled 1t with our blood.
 Just here, I found myself in every
 instance obliged to interrupt these pa triOts with the observation that the real
 compensation that they expect should
 be explained, since it can only be ob-
 tained to the dtriment of a third party. It should be remembered that England.
 by forming an alliance with Japan, by
 subscribing to the Japanese loan nd
 by throwing difficulties in the way oi
 the right of search and in regard to
 contraband of war, has created intense irritation in Russia The expedition to
 Uhasa capped the climax to this rage
 and rancor. And in this way the final
 compensation is explained-the com
 pensation which not only the Russian
 chauvinists but other patriots far more
 enlightened, expect to receive at the
 close of the Manchurian ordeal. T take the formula from two article ,
 tract from one:
 And when our war with Japan 1: I terminated, it will not only be possible l but even necessary, for us to start Ou
 on that expedition so long desired, tn, invasion of India.
 And in a pamphlet entitled Tn e Threatening Future the prince says:
 This great war in Asia with tn, perspective of an expedition agains
 India, to avenge us for the effrouterie ,. of England, of a reorganization of tn ]. Chinese colossus. and of the incorpor = ation of a multitude of colored races II puts us suddenly in the presence of # lquantity of duties in the line of civili - zatfon infinitely complicated.
 ,f Tt is easy to see that the people i e St. Petersburg who. cherish these hope IS muse be intensely interested in tn a news from the far east."-Moscow Cor
 ondrespondence of the Paris Temps.