A Future Mall Route.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 33, 7 July 1885, Page 2

A Future Mall Route.

The correspondent of r the Vaiy News iwri^ng from a, Busiian station i'du' Ifie feasternß'Bnk ot the Caspian Sea, call* attentibtuio probabihty that A Before very long the quickest available route to Calcutta^ from England will be, byway of B^ssja, the, Caspian, Sea, Turkestan v A^hamstan, and the Vailey' l losf s tfie* Ganges. It follows as a , matter of bourse thW the' quickest route" ?io Uua.tralia would , likewise be by^ /the sam« line. The Russian authorities feel that inposseasinj? the contrpl ofWe^CSspian Sea land of the country between that sheet of water and Afghanistan theyhold a key of communication between Europe and the East. This advantage they mean to use primarily for strategic ank warlike purposes. But ihere art also a party who Bee i irvthe advance! of Railway communication towards India I a necessary means otopeningv up friend- ! ly relations with vast nations who might do a considerable trade with Russia. The distance to be travelled on this ' ■ , route Culcutta or irom Madras'^ to^ London would be . about 5000 miles by rail, anql jclpse upon 1000 by water. journey aMoss America, frpmSa^Francisco to New York, is 8380 miles, and it % occupies 6 days, so that on. a rough calculaticn- i| may Jbe estimated^that the tiuie^o.ccuDiejl m railway/ and ,«teanabdki>[ j travelling between Calcutta and Madras ' and London would be between 11 and 12 days.''^^ I*'1 *'" 1 - ; • ••v' i< '- I .'^ ■•■ -?-':o*/:ii-M