ENGLAND IN THE EAST

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 13, 1876

FromThe Review and Herald, Review and Herald, Vol. 47, No. 15.

ENGLAND IN THE EAST.

REFERRING to the alleged acquisition by England of the harbor of Mohammerah, at the mouth of the Tigris and Euphrates, an Austrian journal says that this is probably the first step toward the construction of the Euphrates Valley Railway, and the continuation of the policy which led to the purchase of the Suez Canal shares. “England has now one foot in the stirrup at Suez, and the other at Mohammerah. Russia will have to lower her flag; she has neither the material, power, nor the spirit to beat England out of the field. Was it to be expected that while Russia was advancing toward India, the statesmen of the richest and most cultivated nation of the world should look on with folded arms? The truth is that England is now as strong, and her policy is as great as in the time of William III. or of Wellington. She does not make any show of military strength, but she will get that when she wants it. A country which has so much money and so many resources, whose people are inspired with so grand a patriotism, and whose government acts with such a masterly policy, does not meet with the difficulties of Continental nations in raising an army. Let the English people only be convinced that their army requires developing, as seems to be the case since the Duke of Cambridge’s last speech, and the thing is as good as done.”