Show ENGLAND'S ALLIANCE WITH JAPAN ANNOUNCED LO LONDON DON Feb 12 An An Important Parliamentary paper was issued last night giving the terms of al alliance alliance al- al liance Hance between Great Britain and Japan for the preservation of China and Korea The paper covers covers a dispatch sent by Lord Lansdowne Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs January to the British Minister to China Sir Sit Claude MacDonald and comprises a a. signed c py of the agreement In explanation the paper says the agreement may be regarded as an outcome outcome outcome out out- come of the events of or the past two years ears Throughout the Boxer troubles Great Britain and Japan had been In close ose and uninterrupted communication tion and actuated by similar views We Ve each desire says sas Lord Lansdowne Lansdowne Lans Lana downe that the integrity and Independence independence inde Inde- of the Chinese empire should be preserved and that there should be beno beno beno no disturbance of ot the territorial status quo in China or the adjoining regions The discovery that their far tar Eastern policies were iere Identical resulted in each party to the agreement expressing its desire that their common policy polley find expression expression ex ex- In an international contract of binding validity Lord Lansdowne further says that the British Government was largely Influenced in influenced influenced In- In in entering upon this Important contract by the conviction that It contains contains contains con con- no provision which can be regarded regarded regarded re re- re- re as aggressive E or self He says it Is concluded merely as a measure of ot precaution and that it Inno in inno inno no way threatens the present position or legitimate interests of other power His Majesty's Government trusts that the agreement will be of mutual advantage advantage advantage ad ad- vantage to the two countries and make for the preservation of peace and should peace unfortunately be broken it will have th the effect of restraining the area of hostilities |