Russia Prepares to Confront Turkey
A DESPATCH from Sebastopol, Russia, to the London Graphic says: "War alarms fill the navy headquarters here. The whole Euxine squadron is fully equipped for instant service. Troops with full war kits are daily arriving from the interior. The garrison will soon be a powerful army corps. There is much excitement among the staffs of both services, and all the talk is of bringing Turkey to her senses by forcible measures." For several months Russia has been gathering troops on her southern borders, but it has not been entirely for the purpose of frightening Turkey. Report has it that Russia promised not to embarrass England during her war with the Boers; but her preparation for eventualities goes on unchecked, and the presence of her soldiers and navy at Sebastopol secured for her, it seems, the railway concessions she was demanding in Asia Minor.