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Show BRITISH CELEBRATE AHGL8-JAP NUPTIALS Lord Lansdowne Reiterates Assurance As-surance New Treaty Is Not a Threat. LONDON, Nov 6. Tird I.nilowne Secretary Secre-tary of Foreign Affairs, was the (tuest of the Junior Constitutions. Club at a dinner iflvrn tonight In honor of the signing of the Anglo-Japancse Anglo-Japancse treaty. Lord Ashbourne, Lard haneellor of Ireland, presided, whll among the large number present u . re 'lsount Hay- sshl, the Japanese llinister to ';rent Britain; Lord jSalsbury, r.nrl Percy nn.i utin-r-j prominent prom-inent In party ami diplomatic circles Treaty Not a Threat Ixrd Ashbourne proposed i he health of the gruest of th- evening nnd n I.anwlowne replying, re-plying, took occasion to reiterate that the Argl-i .lapnncso nlllanee was nnt Intended ft n thrrat to other nations or as an MVldence Of a di Blre to rneroach upon thidr right"-- li-ald li-ald thai th8 WSS not a :liilsl?r conspiracy e.galnst other peoph', but that the object of l hi alliance- w;im the ma I ntenii nc o of peace, the Inteerlty nnd Independence Of hlna and the rr-scr atlon of the open door, all of which policy was nfllnm 1 by all Interested jtowers. Aimthcr object of the aiiiunce ho continued, was mutual d.f-iifc ogaJnt unpfovoked attack, at-tack, for which no one could blame cither JOnan or Great flrllaln. Tribute to Balfour. In the coume of his speech i.rd Lonsdovne puid a tribute to Premier Balfour, Maying tht no Premier had ever shown gri-ater inti-rr-st or care In foreign affair Therefore Ird Lane? clowne accepted the compllnunt as Intended for the Government rather Ihnn pernnal to i.imseir He admitted that the Government was suffering from lassitude consequent on ten varn Of power but he thought that recent .Milt hail put new life Into the party and rendered the position Of Its opponents moro hopeless. |