The Russian Press on the Black Sea Fleet.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 162, 24 July 1886, Page 9

The Russian Press on the Black Sea Fleet.

The Odessa correspondent of the "Daily News " writes : — The Russian press is in high glee at the restoration of the Black Sea fleet. If a tithe of the prognostication triumphantly uttered day after day by writers and speech-makers since the Tche3me left the slips at Sebastopol be fulfilled British maritime' supremacy will, at the close of the next decade, have become matter of history. The glorious victory at Sinope is again the subject ot poetical rhapsodies. The perfidious Paris' Treaty of 1857 is once more denounced, and much gratification is expressed at the resuscitated power of Russia, which extorted from the London Conference 1871 an unwilling declaration of the deneutralisation of the Black Sea. The Rue&o German papers are, however, even more excited. * The German literary men and professors who conduot these organs allow: their patriotism to run riot. Their mission is to revive and strengthen German influence in the Empire, an influence which obviously has been fast waning during the present reign. If you call the attention of any educated Russion of position now to the high-flown views of these writers, he invariably declines, with something of contempt, to talk on the subject.