RUSSIAN FINANCE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 569, 26 July 1909, Page 7

RUSSIAN FINANCE.

BRITISH BANKERS TO COMPETE WITH GERMAN (By Telegraph-Proas Association -OoDyrlehl) , (Itec July 25, 5 5 pm) London, July 24. Tho St Petersburg correspondent of the "Stnndaid" states that a gioup of London finnncieis has acquncd contioi of a combination of Russian banks with 70 European and Asiatic brandies. They intend developing Anglo Russian economic relations, to tho exclusion of German finanoml groups, which hitherto haio been all-powerful in Russia.

:■ f; (GERMAN ; INYASipN 'OF 'RUSSIA. '- .-"Gorman/.■colonists'., (says ' the.." ''Slavenskje Vjek," .'Moscow) Have ■■ invaded Rnssia , in such : numbbrs'asto:: amount: almost to; a , ' conquest .'ofi-the ;poujitry.V;The, Tsnr's. 'cities, anil towns aro;filling up wifß a' peoplo who keep" their-a'l-. (egiance,. to the vKaiseiv - France, -ana • England, niay■' hold; Russian,; bonds—the ■ Germans ■:. hold Russian, soil,". .!.:; :, "' -.;::'"".;.' ■:!•.■■> ,>-■-".'-.; ■'~';--. '■■ .'.-'■ ■ , It. is this' German .hold-'oh the internal commerce ,of Russia' that powerful British onpi--like to.emulate..:.German'-.trades.-men'.hold, a ppramoiint'.positiop:in. St.i PetersOdessa,.; Lodz, unij other, great. cdmme'rcinl alsd largely:, hold the .soil..- .-It .has•■•been- ''said of;,the land'-of lAVestern; Kussia. that "Germans: 'hold; One.-t'wentieth; ■■'.■ Their > holding . of• land; in - ; Enropeiin; ! Russia, •ixcliisiye .of 'Pin-lapd,..'i'si;p.lao?|tv.at..3l>6-io' square miles, which than.a sutieth.-of' the'entire! areii.pf 1,951,000 square. lmleaV : \ ,-',-.1 , r.kA-S\ :■ . ";Jt 'is.. esti|iiated,. according- to- a "writer f in ■• it. 'Xondqn- paper, 'that/in.•■'Zliissia.' at .tho present mo'meiit.;there r ;;ai-e;.;over;. 2,0P.0,011Q- Cermans'i; •inbstlj.;;pf."Prussian :origiri,. distributed in -2755 : colonies, 'and lai'sely .under J Qormauy,military., organisntioii.: , "There.'' are . : be.sidog 5,250,00(1 . .Gerraan-speakingJews,' , whose national' syinpa>' thies'at'il.ea'st-r-to'avbid-'all discuasioii ; gn ethnological, -!'points-:are".German;'"■ and .who .'are mostly,- grouped :in-;:the-:?' 'vrcstorn'j provinces, where■ there 19 inpst fear of invasion. There.is thus',tp-dayV.il' Gernl host. of; 7,850,000 in'.'Russia," roqtedvto. spm? ;32,000;.sqnare.miles, of .'the soil;..cpntrolling.by-fttr..the ; greater portion ,of the trade.of the country; .bapked iipby. a foN midable; amount, of '.capital", tto a large extent under.'■ military;. organisation, and '. innocent of any pretension to Russian citizenship. .It is no .longer a'German invasion; it is.a. German bcoupat{on,,-.and no.; one. is .better • acquainted with' the fact than the : wBH-satisfied financier's bf-'UrankfortCand'Berlin, ;whose , solid gain would '■' remain Vundisturbcd;..iby.. r -any .political CPnyulsipn/' .T.; ; -." /■-'';. •■■.-• 'i ; "' ; '- •'-.■■'. ' ..Actual.Voequpation.'..'of territory;. andthe '"'centres- of -Russian , conintercja,! ': life li's, b?t- t te*r;'".tlian. h'oldirig''"Russian scrip.*■" 'Germany knows the resources'of the country even if she doiibts the'stability ; pf. the.;.Gpyernmerit. ;: ;l ',!;