RUSSIA AND INDIA.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1516, 25 March 1885, Page 2

RUSSIA AND INDIA.

_♦ ■ ■ " Wh« r«\ then," aslrs th^ Rissbnfco bist, "is th« Hjign-Rsiou of Rusfi t« stop 1 Ma»t we allow her to pusL h.i

frontier forward to oar own, and thereby expose nm»-|\ps to the danger of Ihose con Biota which inevitab'y arise between nations that possess coitigu* bus territory ?' To t.'iis I reply that Russia must pnsli her frontier nntil she. reaches a country possessing a government which ia able and willing to keep ordtr within its boundaries, to prevent it* subjects from committing depredations ou their neighbors. A» no e of the petty Butes of Central Asia see a capable of permanently fulfilling his condition, it it prc tycwrtaia that cue Russian and British frontier* will one day meet Where they will meet depends upon ou wives. If we do not wish oar rival to overstep ft certain Hue, we must ourselves adtanctt to that line. As to the eomplicatioli and disputes which ine.vitabiy m ig» h*. tween contiguous na'ious, I t-r'nk «bey are fewer and legs dangerons than thorn which arise l«-tweea na ions separated from each other by a small State wbtdi is incapable of making its neutrality respected, and is kept alive simply by the mutual jealansjy of rival Power*. Germany does not periodically go to war with Hollander Russia, though separated from them by a mere, a tificial fraatier while France and Austria have never Wn prevented from going te wir *y the Uroad intervening territory. TW old theory that great Powers tuny ha made to keep the peace by inteiposiftf small independent Su'fei between them is long since exploded : and, even it' true, wonld be inapplicable to the •■«• u tder consideration, for there m s*tk. ing worthy of luting called an inmpan dent State. OMtweru Kussian 4*ruijr/ and British India. Of conrse it is qiite prsible that ! whether we hare a contignons f renter : or not, Russia may same day, in the> evnnt of hostilities, nuke a diversien in the. direction of T idia, and thereby cause n« eon<id*rohle annoyance. This on<jht certainlv in be k-pt tu tiew ; bat it doftsuot jnstify the feiluh pauics which uecastona ly oooar ia £ngli*h pub!ie optnian leganhn^ the ; sefety of onr Indian possession*. In ; any attack that aaight t« masV> t eor position wonld be, in the military sense of th« term, so inco:niura»ly i superior to that of onr antagonist ; that if we conkl not repel Uni iavasien wh have no longer any rig it to nold India," efe.— Wallace's" R issia," vol. 3, p. 44. et #-y.