. Review of reviews and world's work. willexercise a direct influence over Trans-Baikal, Turkes-tan, and Manchuria, and will also become the masterof the Celestial Empire. Germany and the UnitedStates will be given other portions of China; Francewill thank Providence if Indo-China is left in her pos-session. Gaining control of almost half of mankind,England will have in China and India unlimited ma-terial for her armies, and who is then to check hermastery of the world P RUSSIA MIST WATCH ENGLAND AND AMERICA. Strange as are the above utterances of one ofthe leading feuilletonists of the Novoye
. Review of reviews and world's work. willexercise a direct influence over Trans-Baikal, Turkes-tan, and Manchuria, and will also become the masterof the Celestial Empire. Germany and the UnitedStates will be given other portions of China; Francewill thank Providence if Indo-China is left in her pos-session. Gaining control of almost half of mankind,England will have in China and India unlimited ma-terial for her armies, and who is then to check hermastery of the world P RUSSIA MIST WATCH ENGLAND AND AMERICA. Strange as are the above utterances of one ofthe leading feuilletonists of the Novoye Vremya,the most influential newspaper in Russia, readby the court and the Czar himself, they are ex-ceeded by his strictures on what he terms TheNow England. Owing to the incorrigiblepolitical optimism of the Russians, says he, We failed to observe the appearance of a new worldhostile to us. Quite unexpectedly, our friend and well-wisher, whom we had saved from great misfortunes andwhose good-will we have tried to gain by gifts, the. ENGLISH POLITICS. If only I could be sure that the rascal would not get upagain, I would also give him a kick. From Simplicissimus (Berlin). United States, has turned out to be a second Englandand our universal enemy. How did that happen? Ithappened simply as anything else in nature were constantly lagging behind, while America wasconstantly marching onward. We have become weak,the Americans have become strong. We have becomepoor, they have become rich. Well, the favorites offortune are no fit companions for the the weakling in the herd, the nation weakened inthe family of its neighbors evokes instincts of is naturally the prey of power. This is a law,not only in politics, but also in nature. Our only inex-cusable sin in the eyes of our neighbors is that we donot know how to be strong, and the giant nations whohave arisen within the last century are already begin-ning to push Russia with elbow or foot. Th
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