Show HOW england ENGLAND TO CHECKMATE RUSSIA to checkmate mate r russia in her attempt to get gel control of the great central asian trade route boutu and lay her hand on the key to india british in and east indian capitalists are pro projecting jecki ng I 1 grand overland railroad from andon to calcutta pass ing direct directly lv through herat tho the said key to the of india which so BO provokes these two great rival powers power this scheme of the english will enlist tho the operation cooperation co of turkey anil abia minor porsia persia and the provinces of bi ilba injia india and it u is already receiving earnest advocacy from the press and engineers of 6 rest real britain the scheme is ii to connect tile the great continental lines of europe passing through cologne frankfurt frankfort vienna besth Adria nople and now terminating at constantinople with the indian system or railways tit at by a railroad across asia minor and persia the turkish government has recently made mada arrangements for the completion of tho the unfinished lines between calais ostend and constantinople so be that the longest link in the great chain is already provided for turkey being prompt to aid england in her checkmate of the advance of ru rubia kui bia by opening up of the iron highway for british brit nh transit across asia minor to the persian frontier Persia alao hasteen has been hastening tu tco construct railroads for the same name purpose the new york illustrates the importance of this projected 11 I 1 railroad from london to calcutta via via con stantin ople a distance of six fix th euband four hundred miles by a comparison of the importance of the pacific railroads to this thia country giving their dista distance ince from hew york as three thousand three hundred miles milca but as aa vast as would be tho the commercial value of tua this british railroad its value and significance says the iu ili a military and diplomatic point of view would be greater constantinople occupies ageo i geographical poi position tion which has hag always wide it iu in the eyes of the great powers of europe the ley to the 1 east ast A railway such euch as our pacific railways rII wayt running eastward from the great turkish emporium midway be tween tho the black sea and the eastern mediterranean the persian border and the northern frontier of afghanistan would in a few years develop and people theme regions with a living wall of opposition to It Ilus sian encroach encroachments ments from froin tho the caspian basin khiva and the asui valley it would enable england and her continental allies to interpose an effectual barrier to the czarist Cx arii long cher dished deigns of supremacy in tile black sea which ruc met uch tuch t a bloody and disastrous deficit in the crimean war and what perhaps is of quite as great moment not only to england but to oil all southeastern europe and southwestern asia it would cut off the present premon t itus ais tian scheme orbe izing the central asian ancient highways of commerce and allow the overland china trado trade to how flow westward through the Bop horous and to vienna vicuna paris and Lo london Dallon rather than northward through the caspian sea and volga river to st petersburg the railroad has been found to be 6 ono one of tho 60 mightiest engines of war its well as nf af peace and should the long predicted struggle of cussia with england and her other antagonists of the continent over ever tile take place of the tha caspian the proposed overla overland nl railway to india might decide tile lie kup L sue |