RUSSIAN AGGRESSION,

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4, 13 March 1903, Page 2

RUSSIAN AGGRESSION,

A week or two ago the cables advised us that arrangements had been completed at Odessa for mobilising a hundred thousand men of the first reserve, and one- hundred and eighty thousand men of the .second reserve. At the 'time it was thought that this precaiiiridn* was being taken by Russia in view of the unsettled state of the Balkans, but this view is dissipated by the later information which shows that Russia and Austria are working -together to compel Turkey to institute reforms, and with some measure of success. Now we learn from Norway that the Norwegian orces forces are being mobilised because of a fear of Russian attack. Russian designs will cause the Czar to over-reach himself and bring aboi^t trouble. The Finnish trouble is but one incident, the TurkishBalkan trouble is another. The question of the passage of the Dardanelles is a live one ; then we have the Persian 'question and the Chinese question, in all of which Russia shows an aggressive attitude. The Russians will get badly bumped if they begin any war and it is just possible that Britain may help to do the bum. ing in ternational troubles and domestic I troubles are interminable, bnt 4_ people of this prosperous "olonv have no trouble in deciding £t Suratura tea is the finest tA S. great merits of this popult TL force conviction. Surat.,rn tea honest Ceylon tea _^ a ,s pure- « not S J^^ or any cheap or inferior leas.' ° bn *