RUSSIA'S MISSION.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13636, 15 April 1908, Page 5

RUSSIA'S MISSION.

POLICY OF AGGRESSION

POSITION IN EASTERN ASIA

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. ST. PETERSBURG, April 14. M. Stolypin, the Premier, urged the Douma to vote money for the Siberian railway duiilication, vis Russia must be strong in the Far East, not only for fighting but ' for tlte i>rotectiou of her national civilising work, which was Russia's historic mission. It uas impossible to double tho Manchurian line, because China had the ri'j;ht of pre-emption, and would certainly buy it. Without tbo proposed railujsy, lie acknowledged, it was impossible to develop forty million acres of corn lands, and lands rich in auriferous wealth, and the forests in the Amur, region, or to prevent the influx of aliens. His speech was received with enthusiastic cheers.