Show 4 J I I I 4 I 4 I I I M I M 4 I M M I 1 1 1 1 M MM 4 J Ti IE THE ALLIANCE AND GERMANY M 1 M I J 1 I t MM 1 I I 1 1 M M M I I M I I M I 1 M I 1 M M M 1 The Japanese Anglo Anglo Japanese alliance on the surface is in m mer merely r ly l' l a n. matter of agreement between two high contracting c parties Strictly speaking it is i nothing noth- noth ing more re as far as committal to its terms and pros pro visions ons may be concerned But from another point of view it must appeal to France Russia Austria and Italy as representing a potential movement of a amore more serious character The Lh far Eastern policy of Great Britain and Japan J which they the mutually agree a ree to maintain and d defend fend as it happens is identical with the policy of the United States Were Tere the interests of the 8 signatories in China and Korea attacked t that at could I hardly happen without equal aggression upon American interests and while this country would be unlikely formally to join a coalition even in an extreme extreme case it might very verJ possibly act in concert With ith the others in defence of its rights 4 1 But But this probability is not the least serious conI consideration consideration con con- I s which Russia and other countries will take into account in m the connection Their statesmen statesmen states states- men men do dOnot not need to hire a translator to tell them J J that one important effect of the alliance will be to tomake make m Germany a most benevolent observer of its ith t workings T The Tho Kaiser is firmly enough entrenched at Kiao Chon Chou to make him indifferent to any I action able action that Great Britain and Japan might hi his Chinese neighborhood d. d Moreover he be cannot help but welcome an arrangement that will t tend tend to nd to keep U Russia bus busy in Manchuria while hile he be is isI I pt f his preparations to run a n trunk line of railway from the us to the Persian Gulf 1 a IDe c later along the Persian Persi n an and l q coasts coats coasts td there connecting with the British British Brit Brit- Ii ish Indian I i n railway y system One ne of the net net results of Wilhelms Wilhelm's pilgrimage to Jerusalem so to speak taking the Sultan in en route is the co concession ces ion he received recci d' d from Abdul Hamid Hamic for this important and anil andI I magnificent work The he fact that it is feasible in all human probability will be speedily built and will be aided by Great Britain as s a counterpoise to the Russian movement in the Shahs Shah's dominions has hasset hasset hasset set the St. St Petersburg press frothing at the mouth I For a long time Russia has regarded Persia as her her particular sphere of influence Everybody remembers bers ers how she gradually has destroyed British pres pt-es- prestige tige at Teheran and secured decrees permitting her herto herto herto to lay track from the Black Sea to the Persian Gulf That project was intended to place her in command of the Gulf and in a strategic position to threaten the most vulnerable flank of British India The fhe German scheme is calculated to overset all these plans and it is not easy to see how Russia can help herself In China Great Britain and Japan Ja- Ja Ja Japan pan with America in the background confront her with an impasse In Persia for any aggressive siv action action ac ac- ac tion she will have to settle with Germany and Great Gi Gre t Britain It looks as if the da day of a practical pan pan- Teutonic understanding between the United States State the tile German Empire and Great Britain were not not so so distant after all What could not these three gr great 1 branches of the common northern stock do to the rest of the world were they in harmony with witha a tL common policy and working for like and commonly commonly com corn acceptable objects |