RUSSIAN VIEWS.

Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 74, 4 July 1877, Page 3

RUSSIAN VIEWS.

The ■" R-usskiMir,'' a leading journal of -St. - Petersburg, ' says :—•' England, may well boast that she, is ready; .for' war, v for she does not require much time to mobilize her insignificant military force ~and to ; . send her fleet, toy sea.: Sweden and Denmark; may -also : say^ with equally good reason, that they/are ready for war ; J?ut the question- is; whether England is able to enter into a successful conflict with Russia for the achievement of a fixed political; object: England is powerful on the sea, but she i^ hopelessly weak on the Continents. . . ," . We may leave sea to the English, and\ m the meanwhile we can quietly, destroy the Turks on land, or allow.them; to escape m English ships. can raise an insurrection iin India from Persia and. Shokand, and we can destroy England's ;maritime "-trade ; by th' e i-jh'elp V of a; few cruisers, while! the; English ironclads will endeavor m vain to approach the harbors of the Black and- Baltic Seasj so strongly protected : : bylforpedoesV ' our railway communi-. cations would make a successful land- 1 ing of English' -troops on Russian territory as -impracticable as one of Rus^ sia.n troops on English territory. In > a word>" England is charmless to jus so long as she hasno '.Continental; allies; and she will not find any, for 'tlie Napoleoiiic regime m France has. fallen, and no other European State is.disposed to "follow its disastrous example. The ; great powers of ; the Continent must attach far greater imporf tance- tor :the : maintenance of their mutual relations than to tlie alliance of la 'commercial nation, which bring separated from the.m by the- sea, holds aloof from the. system of Continental politics. .■--"■■'.'--' .- : . •