p. 224 | Russia’s Demands of Turkey

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Apr 3, 1900

Russia’s Demands of Turkey

RUSSIA has now demanded of Turkey the grant of exclusive right “to build and operate railroads in the northern part of Asia Minor, and to garrison the country with troops so far as may be necessary for the safe guarding of the lines.” And since Russia has rejected all proposed modification of her demands, this means simply her military occupation of all the northern part of Asia Minor, along the whole southern coast of the Black sea. It will make the Black Sea a Russian lake, and will fix Russian power in all “the north quarters” from the eastern boundary of Hungary to the Pacific Ocean.