The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1895. RUSSIA AND CHINA.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 120, 19 November 1895, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1895. RUSSIA AND CHINA.

The question of the too friendly relations between Russia and China still continues to occupy tbe attention of the press at Home and in the colonies. In this connection the following extract from a contemporary shows how persistently Russia is forcing its way into China : — It is announced that, with the sanction of the Czar, a Russian bank with large capital will be open for busiaess soon at Pekin, with a branch at Shanghai. Some of the most prominent merchants and financiers in Russia are interested in the scheme, which has been secretly canvassed. Tiie enlerprisß is yegaTded as another indication of Russia's determination to wrest the commercial as well as the political supremacy in the far East from England. Trading emissaries of Russia have freely assisted the Government of China with money, and have already penetrated the interior of China, where they are supplanting the British. An article which appears in the Globe indicates the alarm with which the English view the situation. " Russia will unquestionably extort from China the right of way through Manchuria for the trans-Siberian railway. A struggle for supremacy in Asia is upon us. If British influence does not go under altogether we must bear our part in the old masterful English spirit without delay. Thanks to our good relations with Japan, we ought to be able to work thai power bo oar Advantage politically and commercially."