WONDERFUL DEVELOPMENT
OF
ACCORDING TO
His Last Will and Testament.
AMERICAN INVENTION
AS AN
AID TO RUSSIA’S GRASP
ON ASIATIC TERRITORY.
By W. Gannon.
NEW YORK:
THE MARITIME REPORTER PUBLISHING CO.,
15 Whitehall Street.
1889.
ON THE
March to Constantinople.
AN AMERICAN INVENTOR THE ALLY OF THE MUSCOVITE.
Peter the Great may justly be credited with having been the greatest civilizerof his race. To him is due the credit of nationalizing his country and inauguratingvast industries, through the medium of the Ship. So far in advanceof his time was he that his startling innovations and wonderful discountingof the arts of diplomacy must have endangered his head had he not beenfortunate enough to have been born a despot.
Peter’s last will and testament outlined the policy to be pursued by hissuccessors, looking to the aggrandizement of Russia, and startling though itsterms are in their selfishness, they are so thoroughly diplomatic that his successorshave religiously lived up to their full meaning.
And so it comes to pass that the ever-advancing and constantly-tighteninggrasp of Russia on adjacent territory is alarming the Governments of theOld World and may, indeed, in the near future, somewhat concern ourselves.The Canadian Government is now urging Great Britain to erect defences onthe Pacific Coast, for the reason that Russia, in pursuance of her peculiarpolicy, is enlarging her works and arsenal at Vladivostock, opposite British[Pg 4]Columbia; and the initiative has already been taken by Great Britain in theerection of batteries in the neighborhood of Esquimault.
As early as last May the St. Petersburgh correspondent of the New YorkTribune contributed the following report of the progress of the Grand TrunkRailway through Central Southern Siberia to the Pacific Ocean and China:
“SIGNS OF RUSSIAN PROGRESS.
“The completion of the Trans-Caspian Railway to Samarcand marksanother stage in the Russian occupation of Asia. That city was the objectivepoint of the earlier campaigns from Orenburg and the sea of Aral,which ended in the conquest of Khiva and Kokan and the establishment ofTashkend as the military headquarters, with railway connections northward.Bokhara was reduced to the condition of a protected province and Samarcandwas virtually converted into a Russian centre of trade on the border of China.An interval of twelve years has elapsed, during which Samarcand, alreadywithin easy reach from Tashkend, has been gradually approached from theCaspian Sea. The Trans-Caspian Railway is now in operation from Michailovskto Samarcand, a distance of 885 miles, by way of Askabad, Merv andBokhara. This narrow-gauge system, built at a cost of $21,000,000, givesRussia control of the commerce of Turkestan and completes the circuit ofconquest on the borders of China, Afghanistan and Persia. In future militaryoperations in Central Asia this railway, with the northern line running fromTashkend, will be a most useful base of transportation and supplies. Meanwhile,it binds together a straggling series of conquests separated by broadreaches of desert. It is already rumored in St. Petersburg that the Czar intends
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