WHAT RUSSIA WANTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 226, 21 September 1894, Page 2

WHAT RUSSIA WANTS.

ANXIOUS TO SECURE ONB 0$ MORE OF TaE FORTS OF COREA. A cable special from London of reencj Sale abate* r-^-Ih official - circles this Sfi., pression is that ah expulsion 6f the Chines* fromGorea Would be s^edil fdlld^rod by ■' ■- the appearance of a Russian1 fl in Oorkn' waters, and perhaps of Russian edit Coreaa toil. Russia would not allow Japan to make he at home in the penSuSttU," She has too long regarded hersel natural heir lo Corea. Ab pteiieJJ antious id bei tehb -jsiftitts gsw taaintainfii/ and would be greatly displeased w »hV, attempb of China or Japah to take hogged •iota of the land. Id spite of the preab cbit o! the t at Vlaaito»boek, lihd the skilflilnii of thi enfeia#ei?a engaged in theWofk, tSiatp'WMi' noii a Bacufactiory naval atatibn., "Ilfir' clitaatre is harsh and Wearing^ and the roadl< etead is blocked with ice in the cold sewson, Riissia knows tkab only i; little' Infthßt ioAfch oh thb Coream coasb there are seVsril hatbburß exactly suited for her j Porb Lazat-eff on Broughton'a Bay i one of them. •Rhssiirhari had her eyes'o ttiEqf refers. • ■ . . "'^;t' Few Russian officers doubb tbftii Pesf Lazaf6ff would be a strong base.oJ uayil. opbratioae in the Pacific. It would tie ot immense service io Russia in a war withi Eriglafiai Whoj with each a position Ik m habds of an enemy, would be obliged ' either Vb.eend a large part of hor taaty is Asiatic waters or to leave India, Ai and the Straits settlements open to Kusuis'a naVdl attack. In this eitaatiOß lies the reason of Bbj*j land's present anxiety and enmity fco thi Japanese cause. She is most eager t? jprfe. ' yehb Japan giving an excuse to -R for infceirfe'fencf. She realisek that R1 m^ghb plausibly justify such, interference, inasmuch as no one ab St. Petersburg had the remotest influence in fomei the war.. The blttetßßb antiijapaaiss Miteti • in London have feeea declaring all ths wfiefc that Japan is already scheming to Rdseia and England ag; oach other.