The chronicle=news., 1914-09-18
SECRET WILL OF DEAD CAR
GUIDED RUSSIA TO war

Kansas City Star:
Russsa's proclamation Of the an
nexation of Galicia. last week. serves
to recall a most remarkable histor.
ical document-the secret will oi
Peter the Great-which, II is said, IL
read to every czar OF Russia on his
accession to the throne.
In that will. Peter laid out an
amazing program of aggression for
future cZars to follow, which had as
its consummation the commercial or
political subjugation of the entire
world.
Nearly two centuries have passed
since Peter died. The proportion OF
his prophecies that have come true is
startling. Poland has disappeared: F.:
Sweden hns been humbied and iso-
lated: the Turk has been driven from
the Black Sea: the road to India is
mostly in the cars hands. and vast
line OF Russian advance has spread
over northern Asia to the Pacific
ocean.
Must Down the Teuton.
The guiding hand OF the dead czar
may be seen as clearly in the present
war as at any time in the past. En-
gland must be made a commercial
ally. Peter counseled his successors.
All Slavonic people must be nodded
into one nation. COnstantinOple
should be taken and the ascendency
over the Teuton race gained by fair
means or foul. U- #.,..rH
,, Three far reaching objectives. and
all OF them possible as an outcome OF
the titanic war now in progress. II
seems almost, that Russia has no oth-
er policy than n determination to
make Peter's'prophecies comeTt
Russian princes should be en-
.., couraged to take German orin-o
cesses to wife. Thus will We
draw their hest blood into our
nation and absorb the benefits
Of their civilization. I go.
Peter wrote the foregoing some
time previous to his death In 1925
sia have been Influenced by his ad-
vice. It remains surprising fact that
the wives OF the higher Russian no.
hlity. whenever from another M
tion. are most generally Germans.
Many Wives from Germany.
The present czar is the son of
Danish princess. who was half Ger
man. His wife was n princes Of the
German state. of Hesse.' Grand Duke
Cyril married Princess Victoria of
and Grand Duke Paul
German woman of lesser
rank, Countess won Hohenfelsen.
Austria was to be considered only
a pawn among nations, according te
Peter. He advised the czars who
followed him to coax and coddle the
dual monarchy as long a. 1t could be
OF service. and to strike when II
stood in the way. Or, better vet. he
urged, involve 1t in wars with,
France. Germany or Italy and let II
wear its strength down without DAM
age TO Russia. He said:
.D. We must make the house OF
Austria interested in the, ex-
pulsion of the Turk from Eu-
rope. and we must neutralize its
jealousy at the ca3ture OF Con-
stantinolpe either by preoccu-
pying it with a war with other
European states, or by allowing
1t a share OF the spoil. which we
can afterward resume at our
leisure.
What could be more prophetic? :?
Russia's advance along the Black
Sea was marked by the acquisition
of Galicia, Bukowina, Bosnia and No
vibazar by Austria. 1t has already
lost the latter to Servia, the two
former will become Russian terri
tory II the allies win the present war
and Servian arms are now invading g
Bosnia. Russia, it would seem. is re-
at Its leisure. = .ts uo,..
Mnst Have Constantinoule.
No effort should be spared to gain
control of Constantinople. Peter
urged. Russia has spared none. Had
1t not heen for the united resistance
of the powers of Euroae In the Cri-
mean war IL would be Czargrad in
stead Of Constantinople now. He
wrote: &. -. 90,
We must progress as much as
possible in the direction of Con-
stantinoDle and India. He who
can once get possession of those
POINTS is the rear ruler. of the
world. With that view we
must provoke constant quarrels
with Turkey and at another
time with Persia. 80
Moreover, we must take pains to
establish and maintain an intim-
ate union with Austria. appar-
emily countenancing its schemes
for future a5grandizement and
all the while secretly rousing
the Jealousy of the minor states
AGAINST it. In this way we
must bring 1t to pass that one or
the other party shall seek aid
from Russia, and thus we shall
exercise sort of orotectorate