| Show fi b M I I M I M M M M M 4 M M I I M I M I M 1 I t THE J THE JAPANESE ANGLO-JAPANESE TREATY i MM t t t t I t 4 HK Hf 4 4 H MM M M I IThe M The The new treaty of alliance between Great Britain and Japan Tapan which was made public lh Nin in Lou Lon L n d Tuesday night constitutes the international internationals s sensation s of the day It has astonished England I and we think must have surprised and startled conf continental con con- f Europe It is possible and perhaps probable able that the n Berlin cabinet was in the sect secret but hut c in ii apy any case that secret has been well kept no hi hint hiat at j. j I Io o f the movement having reached the papers anywhere anyWhere any any- i where as far as we know It is an important tant and amid even eyen serious step for the 1 si signatories i j rt ol es to tal take The Time fact that in the treaty p h contracting ties patties declare th them them- I r o be entirely by hY any ny aggressive sl e o tendencies tn nis does not obscure their evident ev dent purpose to present a bold rInd and warlike front to any power to menace the independence or terri tern f 0 r III integrity t t Y 0 of f Cl China una or J- J Korea The Th e sal said 1 in in- Ill Ill- despondence of the time two countries named is mutually ec d by Great Britain and Japan The idt J d declares clares that the former Powers Power's interests t. t tar ar centred in China time the latter's lire are are r. r m ll pre an and d the th e sl signatories S reCO recognize that it t l be e admissible for either of them to take such I measures l asure as may be indispensable in order to sai safe safe- gua tt b e interests if they be threatened l ed r ressie action n of f any ny ot other e power or In hr by dist a S arising arl in China or o Korea I ssi th Of either Of th Jit j W NAj 3 I v J t J J I. I 1 5 1 f C i t 1 Ji parties for the be protection of t the e lives and property o ot its subjects i Should either one of the parties iI in defence of its ts interests as described become involved in ill war with another Power Tower the other patty party will maintain neutrality and use its efforts to prevent other Powers Powers Pow Pow- ers ens from joining in the hostilities against its all ally Should any other Power join in such hostilities I then then hen the party ther neutral will conduct war ar warn iii hi n behalf of its ally a Head bet between the lines this agreement can only daly mean that the Russian Hussian pro pro- gramme ramme in Manchuria ia lI and the Russian Hussian ag aggressions in n Korea have gone far enough to in induce uce Great to risk war Britain and Japan jointly and se sevet rather than allow the farther them development of MUl Mu- that the B British Brit covi covite e designs Also it must mean I ish Government at last feels itself strong eno enough enogh gh to aban abandon its forced apathy in the time face of the time the Far Far- Eastern Question and show its teeth again to its ancient enemy Beyond doubt the resourceful statesmen of St St. Petersburg will find s spine some sort ofa ofa of ofa a Roland for this Japanese Oliv Oliver r and possibly possibly possibly pos pos- sibly it it may take the time form of open defiance Should that occur the international intel I. I w weather Yb ther I bureau lre n ti ill l. l need to fly lly all its storm signals in n- n na a J i 1 |
