RUSSIAN INFLUENCE IN ASIA MINOR

International Religious Liberty Association · Chicago, Illinois · Jun 28, 1900

FromThe American Sentinel, The Sentinel of Liberty, Vol. 15, No. 25.

RUSSIAN INFLUENCE IN ASIA MINOR.

And now comes if possible a still more interesting chapter in this story of European diplomacy, “Russia could not be indifferent to the sanction thus given to an enterprise of such magnitude,” says the writer whom we quote. “Some think that she resisted it. Others, with more apparent reason, hold that she had been previously ‘squared’ by Germany, as it is pretty certain that England was squared by the secret agreement concluded between her and Germany in 1898.”

“It is a first principle of German imperial policy,” continues Mr. Brice, “not to quarrel with Russia. Be this as it may, Russia used the event as a basis for the demand to have her right to similar railway concessions in another area recognized; and the Sultan, with much reluctance, has found himself obliged to yield to this demand. He had nowhere to turn to for support, for while France, of course, always supports Russia, Germany, having had her own share, could not in this instance interfere against her, and England no longer comes into question.”