OCR Text |
Show INTERESTING EUROPE, English Diplomats Pind Themselves iu an Embarrassing Position. LONDON, July 7. The political tension between the United Slates and Japan Is exciting the keenest Interest among all the European diplomatists. Nono of them. however, believe that It will reach tlm stage of warfare, because the heuvv bur- don of debt Japan Is currying us a re-suit re-suit of her failure lo obtain indemnity from Russia forbids her embarking on a similar costly enlorprlac in the next do-cade. do-cade. It is recognized, noverthlesa. that the United States Is acquiring thc en-mlty en-mlty of Japan as ono of her national assets which may prove a handicap In the event of trouble with any other power. Groat Britain finds herself in an em-barnusslng em-barnusslng position also, because sho is obliged to stand between her colonics and tho matter of anti-Japanese laws. Trans-vaal Trans-vaal has Just put Into operation a law regulating the entry of Asiatics, which applies lo Indian subjects if, well as to the Japanese and thc Chinese, and which IH compels them lo submit to an examina- tion and registry with thumb prints, like criminals, which is exceedingly Irritating to thorn. Australia threalomi legislation in thc same lines. Alfred Deakin, the Austnillun Premier, during his recont visit to England, repeatedly said in his speeches that tho chief national question with which Australia must deal was the menace of the Intlow of Japanese labor. |