The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-04
POSITION OF RUSSIA
WHAT WILL BE THE NATIONS FU- sr TURF p0LxCYf
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Portsmouth, N. H., Sept. 3.-Alex- ander Briantchaninoff, correspondent of The St. Petersburg Slovo, writing re- garding the future policy of Russia says: .. "It is an axiom that a great country cannot consider its frontier as definite ly fixed until It's provinces have ob- tained free and unobstructed access to the sea. Germany has her ports on the North Sea, England the Atlantic Ocean, France the Atlantic and Medi- terranean, while the United States position than any European country and for this reason must certainly in the near future, play great role in the worlds politics. ."-. z.# .s. ... ..
 Russia, owing to this unfortunate and regrettable war and to the condi- tions on which peace has been obtained from Japan, loses her absolute prepon- derance in the Far East, but 1t Is to be hoped that she will be wise enough not to recommence the badly begun adven- ture 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 a sufficient po- litical value to counter balance Japan csc ambition, so that a frank under standing between Japan and Russia Is necessary in order that the two coun- tries shall be sure of each others good faith.
 The maintenance of China's integ- rity certainly enters into this program as 1t Is only through peace being in- sured in the Far East that Russia can be free to confne her activities to the European stage, where her presence will soon become indispensable. No NkA- yHak - anything else but a sea closed by ice; so 1t will be natural for Russia sooner or later to begin again her efforts to gain an open port to the southward. To attai nthis object there are only two ways, the Persian gulf and the Bos- phorus. The first is the easier, Persia being in state of disintegration, while the Indian army, although quite cap able of defending India, Is not in a po- sition to go to the defense of Persia. Germany would certainly help Russia s schemes in the Persian gulf if left free in the Bosphorus, while If Russia tried to reach the Bosphorus she would have to face German opposition and fight Turkey, which Is much stronger than Persia England at most would remain passive ..:..= .-.... M.......
 Still. the conquest of the Bosphorus would be the best Russia could do. as to reach the Persian Gulf would necessi- tate forcing a way several thousand miles. It would not be dissimiIar to the route which took her to Port Ar thur. She would advance between two rivals. On the other hand If she direct ed her efforts toward the Bosphorus and offered some facilities to England in the South of Persia she could be tranquil On the east she would be in a position to protect the Slav cause against Ger man influence, which is growing every day. On the western side she would prevent Germany from being paramount in Europe.
 Finally, there is another reason for which 1t is time that Russia should un- derstand that she must rely on England and not on Germany. Germany is the power of today and Is putting forward every effort to make England the power of yesterday and prevent the rising of the power of tomorrow-Russia at the head of a great Slav confederation. France, which Is undoubtedly the power of yesterday. has realized this and en- tered Into an understanding with Eng land, while still an ally of Russia