p. 64 | War in the East

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 4, 1873

War in the East.

THE most significant political movement now on foot is the movement by which Russia purposes to drive the Turks from Europe and take possession of that territory. Preparations have long been going forward, and, according to the following paragraph from the Chicago Journal, there is every probability that matters will soon begin to move actively in that direction:—

“Russia has sent an army across the borders of her possessions in Asia into Turkestan, to punish the Khan of Khiva, the ruler of that country, for having sold Russian subjects into slavery. England protests, suspecting Russia’s designs, and there is serious danger that the controversy will result in a war between Russia and England. The latter power is apprehensive of her interests in that region, Hindostan and her other East Indian colonies lying adjacent to Turkestan. It is also suspected in British political circles that Russia’s ulterior design is really upon Turkey and the control of the commerce of the Mediterranean Sea, which of course Great Britain would not quietly submit to. Late dispatches announce that Russia, in order to quiet British fears as to her intentions, now proposes to give certain guarantees, and to establish in Afghanistan a ‘neutral zone’ between her anticipated conquered province and the British East Indian possessions. We would not be surprised to learn of the breaking out of a war between Russia and England as the result of the pending controversy.”