THE RUSSIAN CRUISETS TO BE PERMANENT.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 56, 26 October 1878, Page 3

THE RUSSIAN CRUISETS TO BE PERMANENT.

Lo Nord infers, from recent rrn asnre? nf tin- Russian Ailinirulitr, tlinl the volunteer licet, wliioh was organized with a view to the possibility of English aggression, is to become a permanent institution. The llrussels organ approves of this measure, which it thinks can only serve the liur-rests c: ;>. ■ ic: fo.' '■ pv ;• a•>. A•: >.: Russian conllict again appeared on the horizon, its existence wonM surely ho of a certain weight in the balance of conciliation, inasmuch as it would tend to equalize the risks and perils of tic icspi ciive adversaries. [,e N .id i- nf opinieii that it is a had tiling for any nation i" imagine i: •.■ i l' invulnerable, and refers with strong expressions of disa]>proval to the idea of exhaustion against Russia, which was contemplated, ii savs, with satisfaction hv some organs of the English prc:-s ilu lug the 'past Eastern iliiXeultics. In order to remove I from the British Government the temp- : tation to make war on a system of limited responsibility nothing, concludes, l.e Nord, is iiioro fitted than the permanonee ami development of the squadron of Russian vouluntoer cruisers