Show THE RUMORS OF WARS The foreign corrcspondenls dish i up sinew si-new war scare every day In which RussIa is made the yiece de resistance and Japan Is a prominent side dish There is nothing In the undercurrents to Indicate there Is the least danger of a general conflict over Russian designs I I cither In Turkey or China The RussIan II Rus-sian dream of succeeding to the legacy of tho Eastern Empire with her capital a l Constantinople t I was Indefinitely I postponed by Russian statesmen at the Berlin conference when it became evi dent that Europe could never permit such a colossal power to occupy a I point of such prominent strategic Im portance Napoleon promised Constan tinople to Russia at Tilsit hut its impossibility im-possibility became as evident to him an i II afterward became to Bismarck who also had connived at a Russian occupation I Since the Berlin conference Russian I I foreign IIflnr tOO policy has been directed to se M VULILi to me aea especially on lie Pacific and on the Persian gulf I one as part of her scheme for the de velonmonl of Siberia and the j ot her as i an outlet for hue I I growing Industries in I Turkestan and I Central Asia As part of this latter plan she secured a porllon I of northern Armenia ut the Merlin con ference with the Important fortress of I Kars giving her command of the head I I waters of Iho Tigris and ICuphrales I I river systems Later she carried two I i important I railway lines one from the j I eastern shore of tho Caspian b by way of Sunutrcand to the Pnmlr and I another i from Orenburg on the TraiiBSlbfHnn I I railway southward through Khiva to j I ward the Persian gulf The ponces j sion nicked from Turkey1 which has oc r casloned the recent diplomatic flurry l Is probably purl of an old plan to carry a road westward from Baku through northern Armenia connecting with another projected southward to the Persian gulf As Germany had a railway concession from Turkey for a road connecting the eastern Meuitc ranean with the Persian gulf and probably prob-ably has been looking out for Its safety lie apparent conflict has given rise to the war rumors of the correspondents But Germanys note to the Porto disdaining dis-daining I Interference with the Russian I schemes and time later acquiescence of Turkey together with complete silence I on the part of the London and Paris Cabinets Indicates lhat the mailer hud been mutually undcrsiood before the demand on Turkey was made Taking this In connection with complilc understanding un-derstanding on Ihe opendoor policy In China which removes lie principal cause of objection by England and the United States It is probable that tho entire Asiatic question has been set tied by aJI the powers concerned ando > and-o l1bly had been before the British Government embarked in the African war warFear Fear of a Russian Invasion of India t Is a relic of the Eastern question of the Mellcrnlch school which events and tho rise of industrialism have consIgned con-signed to the attic of diplomatic rub I bish India with the great rampart of I tho Himalayas would not have the slightest value as an element of Russian Rus-sian deelopmcnt of Central Asia and the only value of the threat would boas bo-as a club to restrain English opposition to the more rational Russian policy of obtaining some good seaports It Is nol the old sentimental policy of seeing her palaces on the Bosphorus that actuates the Russia of today but of developing the resources and l Industries of her great population and enormous I I territory And It Is probable that England I Eng-land and the other powers see that It I Is more profitable to furnish the Russians Rus-sians railroad supplies and oilier goods than lo place obslacles that Russian I pcrsisloncc would be certain In time to overcome That opendoor business 1 relieved an enormous quantity of Inter I national friction I |