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Show UKJ JAPAN AND GREAT BRITAIN MAY DISAGREE. If Japan should break from the alliance al-liance with Great Britain, there would be danger of the island empire form ing an uiuauuu wiui uci muu, anu then, if the central powers were to win the war, tho troubles of the United Unit-ed States would be of a magnitude greater than the chasing of a Mexican bandit. Literary Digest has been reviewing the Japanese papers and has discovered discover-ed that the veiled hostility toward Great Britain, which has for many months been noticeablo in a certain section of the Japanese press, gains a fresh Importance from the statement recently made to the Japanese House of Peers by Baron Ishll, the Minister of Foreign Affairs The Baron told the House, according to cable-dispatches, that the Japanese and British governments gov-ernments were In negotiation with regard re-gard to Japanese emigration, a subject fully covered by the existing treaty between Great Britain and Japan. Despite De-spite the denials of the Japanese Foreign For-eign Office that there Is any thought of abrogating the present treaty, the apers of the Mikado's Empire believe that something is afoot. This view is llso taken by The Japan Advertiser, in American paper published in Tok-ro, Tok-ro, which considers it possible that Japan way withdraw from her alliance alli-ance with England. The Advertiser says: "Before the war began, the Anglo-Japanese Anglo-Japanese Alliance was a target of continuous con-tinuous attack, the complaint then being be-ing that Japan derived no economio benefit from It. Since the war began, be-gan, the attacks on England have never nev-er been more bitter, never more heedless, heed-less, never more ready to exaggerate every trivial Incident or rumor that seemed to tell against their ally's cause. "The Japanese public are continuously continu-ously instructed by their press that the Alliance is a one-sided and worn-contract, worn-contract, and so persistently Is this proclaimed that it Is impossible for any foreign reader to escape the conclusion con-clusion that a considerable body of Japanese opinion Is hostile to the Alliance." Al-liance." Among the Japanese papers the Tokyo Yamato has been the leader in the agitation against the treaty, and has published a series of articles on the subject from tho pens of men prominent in political or academic circles. In one of these articles Prof. Latche Lett exclaims: "The present war In Europe has made It clear to us that there Is no community of ideas between Japan and England. Japan stands for loyalty loyal-ty and justice, Germany for loyalty and Injustice, while England stands for selfishness and Injustice." oo |