The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-04
RUSSIA MUST LOOK ID
 ENGLAND NOT GERMANY
OPINION OF 4 RUSSIAN ON HIS COUNTRIES FUTURE
 POLICY.

Must Have an Outlet to the sea--Onlv
 Two Ways, the Persian Gulf and the
 Bosphorus-The First the Easier
 Germany's Double Game-way to
 Quench Her Imperialism and Main
 tain European EquiIibrium.
 Portsmouth, N. H. Sept. S.,-Alexan- der Briantchaninoff, correspondent of , the St Petersburg slovo. writing re- garding the future policy of Russia. says:
 Tt is an axiom that great country cannot consider its frontiers as defn- itely fixed until it's provinces have ob- tained free and unobstructed acceses to the sea. Germany has her ports on the North sea; England the Atlantic ocean; France the Atlantic and Mediterranean. while the United States, thanked by two oceans is in a better position than any European country, and for this reason must certainly in the near future. play a great role in the worlds politics. Rus sia, owing to this unfortunate and re- gettable war, and to the conditions on which peace has been obtained from
 Japan, loses her absolute preponder- ance in the Far East; but it is to be
 hoped that she will be wise enough to recommence the badly begun ad- venture in Manchuria She will have
 to be satisfied to regain through com- merce what she has lost through the { army. Vladivostok, frozen for months every year. with Japanese sentinels all around her, cannot have sufficient political value to eounterbalance Ja- pans ambition. so that frank under standing between Russia and Japan is necessary in order that the two coun- tries shall be sure of each others good faith. The maintenance of Chinese in tegrity certainly enters into this pro-
 gramme, as it is only through peace. being insured in the Far East that Russia can be free to contlne her activ- ities to the European stage, where her presence will soon become in dispens- able. No matter what the future of
 the control of the gateWays to the
 Baltic may De, that sea will never be for Russia anything else but sea
 closed by ice, so that it will be natural for Russia sooner or later to begin her efforts to gain an open port to the southward, To attain this object
 there are only two ways, tic E CTS iSlEa gulf and the Bosphorus. The first is
 the easier, Persia being in state ldisintegration, while the Indian army, lalthough quite capable of defending h. l ldia, is not in a position to go to the defense of Persia. Germany would cer-y tainly help Russia's schemes in the
 Persian gulf, if it were left free in the Bosphorus, while if Russia tried to reach the Bosphorus she would havd Ito face German opposition and fight
 Turkey, which is much stronger than Persia.
 l England at most would remain pas- sive Still, the conquest of the BospIio- rus would be the best Russia could dos as to reach the Persian gulf would ne- lcessitate forcing a way several thou-f sand miles-it would not be dissimilar % the index which took her to Port Arthur. She would advance between 1.-two rivals. On the other hand, if she
 directs her efforts towards the Bospho- rus and offered some facilities to Eng
 be tranquil; on the east she would be in a position to protect the SIav cause against Germany, which is grow- ling every day. On the eastern side she would prevent Germany from being paramount in Europe. Finally, there is another reason which 1t is time that
 Russia should understand and that she must rely on England and not on GerA
 many. Germany is the power of to-day land is putting forward every effort to make England the power of yesterday and prevent the rising of the power of Ito-morrow Russia at the head of a
 great slav confederation. France
 which Is undoubtedly the power of yes- 3terday, has realized this and has en- tered into an understanding with Eng@
 land while still an ally of Russia.
 Alexander III realized it when he ljoined hands with France, but after
 him a clear political object on the part
 of Russia was lost. The duty of Russia toward her Slav brothers was abandon4
 ed, was forgotten and the country with ]eyes closed threw herself into the llaz-
 ardous game which naturally ended in I a catastrophe. If now Germany slic-
 ceeds in pushing Russia into the Per- sian gulf, the adventure will mean d l quarrel with England coolness toward
 France and the sacrifice of the Slaves lof Austria and Turkey on the later Of
 German ambition.
 I Tt will finally mean new conf1agraa I (Continued on Eighth Page)