The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, May 30, 1916. FUTURE OK DARDANELLES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1557, 30 May 1916, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, May 30, 1916. FUTURE OK DARDANELLES.

IX a reeent speech in the Duinn Pro lessor Milinkolf, Lender of the Constitutional Deinoerntie Party, made the following slnteinent on what Russia is lighting for : —“Our Russian interest in this war ean he defined very briefly : We need an outlet to a free sea. We did not begin the war for this ; but without it we shall not end it. The annexation of the Dardanelles is in no way an attempt to enlarge the Russian frontiers, Russia is big enough, and has no need for new territories; but her complete development without an outlet to a free sea cannot possibly be realised. In our time, when the obi idea of Continentalism is dead, when international relations demanding a sea-way have become the order of the day, the State without such communications is an organism without the necessary organs. Yon can say to me, ‘lf 'furkey had been wiser w? could not possibly then have realised this aitn. We would have to wail.’ But when Liman von Sanders entered Constantinople, when the Turkish War Minister had become a servant of Germany, and the Turkish fleet became coni rolled by Germans, the whole situation changed. We fully realise what is the plan of Germany, and for what she is carrying on this war. It is clear to everybody that in the case of victory Germany would create in Europe a Central Stale, and would capture or subjugate Turkey' economically, and then politically. ‘Berlin-Bagdad,’ that is the German idea ; and since it has been created we have no other choice'. The question now is not whether (he s)rails will become Russian or remain Turkish; the question is whether they will become Russian or will remain German.”