The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-15
RUSSIA'S new RAILROAD PLAN
\ JINE THROt on PERSIA To
BRITISH INDIA.
English and Fr~a-h capital O. Also Calissi
tpoa- Earitrr Project Vetoed Zoe
Year THAT % wsulsi Arouse Pratr~ts
frsm the Brtt,>l Foreign Dniee

frsm the Brit'>h Foreign Ofiiee.
Sc PprsRsBu ae Nov. 20 Tn. protest
OF forging m" middle link IN Il continuous
chain Of railroad from Calais to bombay
hos captured ths nd eDturous umagnn-
tioIr NJ Russians The spirit that i'm
psthaj thorn tn SUCCESS With their
Siberian aud csDtraI Asian railroads Ia
rraw al aned UNEXPECTEDLY L. discour-
agefnent in r~ccnt years - readily ac-
counted for. Carried beyond reason
II had landed Russia III III" disrcputah!s
mixture of private company speculation
and "stsnsibla hIgh policy that pre-
cipitatSd the inglorious war NJ SIX years
ago
\ member OF the Imperial Geo grn phical
Socis;y sho ~ on tn. committee Of pre-
paratory studies for organizing III" part
that Russians shall talk" IN tn" lnt"rna-
tional work Of surveying constructing
and financing tn" railroad has given THE
SuS a remark able outhnr Of what has
brought about tn. launching 81 the press
ont enterprise and what ~ "xpectad to b.
done Two widely r.mnt" events have
had an important bearing Tn. Russo
Japanese convention in $o FAR rs il scanned
to make Manchuria a region To h" ex-
'h' lN' W. viz NlF'hai
exclusion of IN. rest NJ the world has
been promptly Countsr"d by the action
of American bankers and tha Washington
State Department in securing for China
n large loan. in which European houses
have taken share. To no applied in do
ysloplng Manchuria in tho interest of
China herself and 81 those countries
which refuse 70 have their husin pros
l.. L..
convention That has helped greatly
toward deciding Russia not tn look for
any special sphere Of inau.nc. for rail-
road work IN China's great semi detached
province
Next there ~ the indefinite post por"-
ment of the schern" of an .ast - we-:
railroad from south X ls-a to tn. ACSiatic.
giving the SIay- al last their warm
water port. Apart from the asCendanCv
that German Austrian influence has now
secured in the direction e Turkeys
Affairs the belief prevails here thar racial
and social disorder in European Turkey
and the provinces north Of IL is going 10
he so bitter and prolonged thai nuv
constructive work in the way Il rail-
reading would lead only into horne; =
nest. The longing for some great pro-
ductive enterprise leading out beyond
Russia's frontier which il 30 strong
among many Of the best Russians has
had to seek vet again for Al np.ning.
II In thus that IN. possibilities Of Persia
are brought forward The SPONSORS OF
this undertaking include Nicholas. Hor,ia-
koT the last Speaker 81 the Duma. MIR
Timiriasen. the last Minister of Com
nerr, and IN. presidents OF the yolpa-
Kama Bank IN. Russian Rank for Foreign
Trade and other establishments
The central idea Of the new trunk
railroad dates from long ago In lisa
Ne-srs Homiakof and Tr.riakoF. with
unofficial suDuort from ih,. Russian
Government rrnDr-.-i Ia go 'n Teheran
and ask the shah FOR A concession A.
the las, moment tn. state DepArtment
here pronounced a veto on the ground
that the British Foreign Once would
consider he railroad 3, hos, lie sion directed
toward India The idea WAS dr,np.d
after Russia had nlade her formal pro,es,
10 Persia anain-t granting any kind of
Concession 10 any other Power
Tn. recent chang. IN the Furop.an
political constellation has helped To re-
move the Anslo-Indian hostility that
thwarred the first scheme TuE SrS's
informant adds no-eover thu, Gsrmap
interests were satisfied during N. in
,erviews Of the Car and Kai-er n, Pots
darn and would take mart in tho scham.
as the hes, means Of making su-. maj
their own BaSdad railroad shouId M, y.t
-blanko,nd Conpl.t., freedom, n, action
in Persia wa. formally nrorri.ed N Russia
A chief attraction in the proposad new
railroad from Ru.sia through p.rsi,
10 connect with tho norfh horn ,arninu.
Of IN. Indian railroad .vs-arn - Thai no
national r.yenu. or taxation il 10 he an.
pIiad 10 il Their. will h. "a s-andins,
international he,douartars an orraniza-
tion committee al B-,Issels NJ Russian ,
British and French repr.sents-ivas
The IanUth of tho Pars,an sac,io- .,
the road from Fns.li on tho sourh Rus-
sian frontier IN Nusch<i tho nor-b.rn
raiIhead Of IN. Indian .vs,.m - 1tso
miles Across. Russia from nor wss,srr
mr. Austrian fron-iar IN Rail- p, ,h,,
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