BERLIN, MONDAY — The next curious discover seems in a Berlin paper: “It’s stated that Russian officers holding a excessive place in their very own nation at the moment are on a secret mission in England, the place they’ve been negotiating for the final month with officers within the British Civil Service.” Their alleged object is to acquire info, maps and plans regarding English concessions in Persia and Arabia.
“After leaving London they’re to go to Paris to be able to contract a big mortgage there, and to acquire the assist of France. Russia’s intention is to construct a huge railway by way of Russia, Turkestan, Persia, and Arabia to the Pink Sea. On the terminus of the Pink Sea a Muscovite naval station is to be erected, and an settlement with the Authorities of the Shah of Persia has already been concluded and signed.”
— The New York Herald, European Version, Dec. 21, 1898
