| Show FOILED PLOT TO PARTITION CHINA emperor william and secretary hay nipped in the bud well L d scheme of france THE SECRET HAS LEAKED OUT old world powers had planned a division of eastern asia but their schemes came to naught an interesting cipio matic secret explaining certain events of the past and having an im bearing upon the future iela eions of the powers may now be dis closed the information comes at an opportune moment tor just now the diplomatic world is eagerly discuss ing the alleged violation of neutral ity by france in permitting rodest fleet to make use of kam ranh bay as a base there are well defined rumors of the formation of a closer alliance between arelt britain and japan an alliance which it act may send the english fleets to japan s assistance in case the rus win a victory over tobo s ships ani in foreign chancel lories and in embassies both here and abroad much speculation Is rife as to whether the victorious japanese ever will get out of manchuria or whether on one pre text or another they will remain there indefinitely and virtually add that rich empire of 50 of people to their territorial possessions the disclosure involves the united states and all the leading powers of europe it will be remembered that a few days after the outbreak of hos tl litie between russia and japan fourteen months ago secretary hay sent out to the powers his now fa note asserting the principle of the maintenance of the tive entity of china and inviting ad cherence thereto at the tiree it was generally supposed mr hay bad done this in pursuance of his well defined pol cy of throwing about china s in all the pi election v aich the moral influence of the united states could swa this was true but it was oon discovered that the initia tive of this action really came from the german emperor who suggested the step through bis able ambassador to washington baron von recently the state department per bitted the publication of a brief chap ter of the diplomatic of the un ted states which afforded ample proof that the move in ques tion was made at the instance of the 1 alser emperor william s motive in this action has never been explained the explanation Is now given upon anim peaceable pea chable in december 1903 and january and february 1904 the kaiser dis covered indisputable evidence that foreign minister Del casse of france was worl ing upon a project of enor importance and far reaching sig Del casse was casting about for means of averting the war the plan was nothing less than the formation of a new alliance or an ar ran gement which would have had all the force of an alliance concerning the tar eastern quest on first france and great britain were to reach an understanding as to their alms in china and in eastern asia generally then each was to use its influence to bring its ally into the combination upon well defined terms in other words france was to bring in russia and great britain was to bring in japan details as to the form of the proposed agreement are lacking it is quite likely they were not formulated beyond general terms it is known however that they contemplated a division of eastern asia into spheres of influence in which each of the par ties to the agreement was to exercise paramount rights this is the great scheme that was foiled by the action of secretary hay and the german emperor |
