JAPAN'S ATTITUDE.
AN EXPRESSION OF LOYALTY
(By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.)
(Australian and N.£. Cable Association.)
4 ' (Reuter's Telegrams.) (Received May 10th : 1.20 a.m.) . London, May 8. Tho Press 'Bureau states that Baron Goto sent a message to tho British Ambassador in Tokio saying that he had been charged with the duties of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs owing to the regrettable illness and consequent retirement of Baron Motono.
'"I need hardly assure you," he said, •of Japan's unswerving determination to stand by the Anglo-Japanese alliance, showing my predecessor's implicit faith in a final victory for our common cause. I feci proud of being "associated with you in the great task before us.'*
Sir AV. Greene (British Ambassador), in reply, said that he welcomed Japan s assurance. Britain had il~ ways regarded, and would continue to regard, the Anglo-Japanese alliance as the corner stone of the relations which united the two countries.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16208, 10 May 1918, Page 7
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