JAPAN

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 37, 12 August 1914, Page 7

JAPAN

REPORT REGARDING AN ULTIMATUM. A DENIAL. LONDON, 10th August. The Japanese Embassy considers a report that has been circulated that an ultimatum has been issued by Japan is false. [A message received yesterday read : " Tokio, 10th August. — Japan issued ultimatum in conformity with—-. Stop, message censored."] TOKIO, 11th August (morning). Prolonged Councils of Cabinet and the Elder Statesmen have excited public opinion. The newspapers strongly advocate war, and are impatient at Japan apparently playing a subordinate part. The newspaper Asahi Shimbun, after quoting the first article' of the AngloJapanese Alliance, says: "The question of the necessity of Japan's help depends on the interpretation of this article, and British territory in the Orient being already in jeopardy, the time has arrived for Japan to act, but apart from our obligations it is imperative that we should realise the crisis is already here." [Article I. of the Anglo- Japanese Treaty sets out: "The High Contracting Parties, having mutually recognised the independence of China and of Korea, declare themselves to be entirely uninfluenced by any aggressive tendencies in either country. Having in view, however, their special interests, of which those of Great Britain relate principally to China, while Japan, in addition to the interests which she possesses in China, is interested in a peculiar degree politically, as well as commercially and industrially, in Korea, the High Contracting Parties recognise that it will be admissible for either of them to take such measures as may be indispensable in order to safeguard those interests if threatened either by the aggressive action of any other Power, or by disturbances arising in China or Korea, and necessitating the intervention of either of the High Contracting Parties for the protection of lives or property of its subjects."] PROBAILE JAPANESE ACTION. DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST GERMANY EXPECTED. (Received August 12, 8 a.m.) LONDON, 11th August. Reuters agent at Pekin states that there are convincing indications that Japan will shortly declare war against Germany, and in that event will seize Tsing-tau, the capital of the German Protectorate of Kiaochau. GERMAN. WAR VOTE. triMIS AND RTDNET SUN BKRTIOM.) BERLIN, 10th August. The Reichstag has authorised a war expenditure of £265,000,000. (PRESS ASSOCIATION.) PREPARED FOR EVENTUALITIES, i PRINCESS WHO LOOKED AHEAD. (Received August 12, 8 a.m.) BRUSSELS, 10th August. A German princess's castle in Belgium was cleared of its valuable contents six weeks ago and sent"' to Germany. BULGARIAN GENERAL DISMISSED. (Received 12, 9.25 a.m.) SOFIA, 11th August. The Bulgarian Government has dismissed General Dimitrieff, Ambassador at St. Petersburg, for entering the Russian army. STEAMER ACCIDENTALLY FIRED ON. ATJSTBIAN ADMIRAL ON BOARD. (Received August 12, 9.25 a.m.) - , ROME, 11th ' August. British destroyers accidentally fired on and made holes in the steamer Taurus in four places. An Austrian admiral was aboard. ON SCANDINAVIAN COAST. LIGHTS EXTINGUISHED. (TIMES AND SYDNEI SUN SERVICES.) (Received August 12, 8 a.m.) CHRISTIANIA, 10th August. The lights on the Scandinavian Coa9t have been extinguished.