A DREAM TO BE REALISED.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 41, 19 February 1915, Page 4

A DREAM TO BE REALISED.

Discussing a Russian Constantinople,! Wellington Evening Post says:—Of all the great issues that hang upon the result of the war, none is more historically interesting than the fate of Constantinople, which now seems to be drifting with increasing momentum towards the dominion of the Tsar. Among the evidences thereof are the remark made at the opening of the Duma by the Russian Premier, who stated that “a radiant future for Russia was beginning to dawn on the walls of Constantinople” ; also the more recent testimony of the Russian Liberal leader, M. Miliukoff, who affirms that after the war Russia will hold the Turkish capital by agreement of the Allies. Far-reaching as such a deveopment would be, it is probably not in advance of British sentiment. In latter "years more and more Britons liave been won over to the view that notwithstanding the Crimean War and, the Berlin Conference, Russia’s des-| tiny nuifft eventually bring her to the Golden Horn. A war that has brought Britain and Russia into league has inevitably promoted this feeling, and finally it has been confirmed by the action of the Turk himself in rising from his “sick bed,” under German persuasion, and wantonly making war upon the Entente Powers. Clearly the time has come when the Ottoman must be pushed out of Europe, “bag and baggage.” Britain cannot again make the mistake.of putting her money on “the wrong horse,” and the Spectator’s concurrence with the view that the ancient Byzantine capital must pass under the Tsar probably represents the drift of public opinion in the Old Country. As the Turk, by his own choice, must go, who has better claims than Russia to his strategic position at Constantinople?