The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1912. RUSSIAN ASCENDANCY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 91, 17 April 1912, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1912. RUSSIAN ASCENDANCY.

Captain Battin'o, writing on Russian ascendency in Europe and Asia in the ■ ‘■‘Fortnightly Review,” lays particular stress on the point that the desire of other Northern Powers besides Britain for southern expansion and “places in the sun” is unquenchable and must be accepted. Great as the temptation may be in England to'regard Russian ambitions with jealousy and distrust, the fact remains that Britain must come to a decision as to what Powers she can regard as friendly, and so shape her policy towards them as to eliminate friction and suspicion, the writer thinks. If Russia is to be an ally in Europe, she may reasonably insist that British policy shall not injure Russian interests in Asia unless undoubted British rights are involved. It is not for Britain, lie says, to play the part of knight-errant, nor arc her resources equal to the role. Moreover, it seems not altogether unlikely that tho 1 severest strife in which her peoplo will be absorbed in the near future may Do the internecine struggle of industrial quarrels, brought about in a large degree by the hard fate of the least successful in the pitiless economic struggle of daily life in the peaceful shires of England and Wales.