Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-02-26 | Page 3 | Russia Will Gain Access to the Sea

RUSSIA WILL GAIf i fiCCESSTO THE SEA Sir Edward Grey Announces England's Sympathy With Desire of Muscovites. LONDON, Feb. CS, 3:13 p. in. Sir Ed- ward Grey, the foreign secretary, announced an-nounced in the house of commons today that Great. Britain was in entire accord with Russia's desire for access to the sea. ""With Russia's desire for access to the sea England 1b in entire accord," the foreign for-eign secretary said in response to a question ques-tion from Frederick W. Jowett whether England knew of and approved the statement of the Russian foreign minister, minis-ter, M. Sazonoff, in tho duma, that "Russia "Rus-sia intended permanently to occupy Constantinople." Con-stantinople." The foreign secretary responded that he was unaware that Sazonoff had made any such statement, but he added "the I statement I have seen was thut M. Sazonoff Sazo-noff Ivad said that the events on t he Russo-Turkish frontier would bring Russia nearer realization of the political-economic political-economic problems bound up with Russia's Rus-sia's access to the sea. "With these aspirations," he continued, contin-ued, "England is in sympathy. What form their realization will take will no doubt be settled In the terms of peace." The announcement of Sir Edward Grey marks one of the Important developments In the European political situation since the beginning of the war. Russia's desire for a warm-water port and unrestricted outlet from the Black sea Ions has been one of her most cherished national aspirations. as-pirations. Speaking in the dunr.i on February Feb-ruary 9, Premier Goremykln said: "Turkey has marched with our enemy, but her resistance already has been .shattered .shat-tered by our glorious Caucasian troops, and the radiant future of the Russians on the Black sea is beginning to dawn near the walls of Constantinople." The attitude of Great Bin tain in the event the fortunes of war should favor Russia in the struggle with Turkey has been an open question.