Expects Russo-Chinese War.

New York Times 100 years ago today, September 26, 1912:
And Spiridovitch Says We Are Aiding China to Engage in It.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    PARIS, Sept. 25.— In an interview in the Patrie to-day on the general position of international politics, the Russian General, Spiridovitch, gave it as his opinion that one forthcoming development would be a declaration of war by China against Russia. In the course of his remarks the General gave the following curious reasons for this remarkable statement;
    "China is obliged to follow the same method of expansion as Japan, which has been forced to pour her overflow population into Korea and Manchuria. China has now 500,000,000 inhabitants, and there are twenty million births yearly. Siberia is necessary to her.
    "The United States knows this, and now that it has the Panama Canal with which to become master of the Pacific, its policy will consist in arming and organizing China in order to make that vast empire an importing country, to be assured of an exchange of trade, and to force China to drive back the Russians to the Urals.
    "Russia, also is certain to enter into a conflict with the United States, whose imperialist policy is aggressive and egotistic. Already the relations between the two States are far from cordial, and the tension will become more and more acute.
    "It is thus criminal to give China the $300,000,000 which the group of Anglo-American banks promised to her, and the coin of which France would be called on to furnish.
    "It is the enemies of the Franco-Russian alliance who, to lessen Russia's power, are procuring for China the financial means to make war on Russia in the near future."