nciples
are sufficiently well recognized to make it certain that what he is able
to do he is doing to remove all causes for the misgivings with which a
good number of his fellow-citizens regard the Russian alliance in its
moral aspect and its possible ultimate developments.

Great hopes are felt that these very delicate representations will meet
with success. Predictions are made that the final outcome of the
combined grant of autonomy to Poland and the removal of at least some of
the civil and religious disqualifications now weighing upon the Jews in
Russia will be the growth of a new State, in which the Jew and the Pole
will find an equal place in the sun and flourish exceedingly.

* * * * *

WAR ON GERMAN TRADE.

M. Sazonof, Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, to Correspondent of
The London Times, Petrograd, Sept. 15.

The eyes of the world just now are fixed on the fortunes of the armies
in the field. It is, perhaps, not spectacular from the point of view of
the average newspaper reader to speak at this time of mere business and
trade relations. I quite well realize that it is accounts of victories
and routs, acts of heroism and magnificent assaults by troops that sell
the newspapers, but beyond and above all this there now exists a
situation and an opportunity in trade and commerce with Russia which to
England and America may mean more in decades to come than it is easy to
realize.

For years past Germany has been steadily and vigorously pushing her
trade into all quarters of the Russian Empire, and now sells us above
L60,000,000 worth of products yearly. The ground has been broken by
Germany, and these enormous markets for machinery, chemicals, and all
sorts of manufactured products are now suddenly cut off from the avenues
through which they have been supplied. Herein lies the greatest
commercial opportunity for England and America that has ever been
offered.

It has been said in the Maxims of Pascal that to govern is to foresee.
This is not only true of politics and affairs of government, but applies
as well to trade relations. It is that country which foresees the
situation commercially in Russia that will reap the enormous benefits
that these markets now offer.

It is not merely sufficient that merchants and manufacturers should
offer their goods here. They that would profit permanently by the new
trade conditions of this empire must take up the task serious