GERMAN ROUTE TO INDIA.
RESULT OF RUSSIAN PEACE TERMS. ENEMY’S LATEST CLAIM. KNOTTY POINT FOR BRITAIN. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) NEW. YORK, March 10. The New York Times gives prominence to a despatch from German sources, stating that the Germans claim to have acquired a direct free route via Russia to Persia and Afghanistan. The Times points out, that if the despatch is true it has an important bearing on the situation in Western Asia, and possibly India. A passage through Persia would probably meet with only nominal opposition. Lord Robert Cecil, interviewed, said ho would he glad if Japan acted in her own and the Allies’ interests to prevent the Germanisation of Russia, where Germany was pursuing world schemes, as evidenced by the Baltic and Black Sea operations, and the pending occupation of Odessa. The insistence on the restoration to Turkey of Batoum, Ar- 1 dalian, and Karsas was designed to substitute a new eastern route for the Bagdad railway.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4815, 12 March 1918, Page 5
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