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Show JAPAN A lllil ALU J2 YEAJB Has Been Honorable and Trustworthy Associate in Pact of Nations. LONDON, March 13. Concerning doubts expressed In some quarters on the subject of Japanese intervention in Siberia, tho Dally Telegraph says that Japan is a British alley of twelve years standing and during all that timo she has, apart from the services rendered to the allied cause- in the course of the war, shown herself an honorablo and trustworthy associate The paper continues: "The overwhelmingly strong Interest of Japan in this part of Uio world is, of course, apparent from a glance at the map. Japan Is a highly organized trading nation nnd is directly interested inter-ested in tho maintenance of general peace and order in the lands where her economic relations are close and which arc supremely important to her welfare. That was fully recognized by Great Britain in the treaty of 1905. Germany Reckoning In Siberia. "Whatever the Siberian republic may turn out to bo when he know anything of It, we may at least bo suro that Germany reckons upon dominating dominat-ing it as she reckons upon dominatiug all other fragments of the shattered Russian empire. "If the triumph of our enemy's influence in-fluence is to be guarded against In the region whero Japan and other allied interests are especially s"trong, the sooner tho business is undertaken tho better. There is no senso, or Justice In permitting chaos and helplessness in Russia to be turned to the advant- age of the enemy, if it can be pre-! pre-! vented. If such action as was taken in Manchuria should ultimately bo the , means of re-establishing a national rule of constitutional authority In i Russia and If it should constitute a I rallying point for the forces of sanity and order than a priceless benefit would be conferred upon the Russian ' people. I "The present position is one of legal land national protection. In a situa-, situa-, Hon without a parallel and in which i the ordinary formulae of international action are meaningless, the principal I caro of allied statesmanship as a whole I will be, while allowing itself to be guided by the logic of events as they arise, to divest whatever consideration of any color of aggressive or annexationist annexa-tionist Intentions." no |