The Fielding Star. Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. MAY 8, 1895. JAPAN AND RUSSIA.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 261, 8 May 1895, Page 2

The Fielding Star. Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. MAY 8, 1895. JAPAN AND RUSSIA.

It is a matter for earnest thankfulness that wiser councils have been allowed to prevail, and that Japan has retired from the untenable position she took up in antagonism to the Great Powers relative to the adjustment of the Treaty of Peace entered into with China. It was doubtless the intoxication of victory which caused the Japanese to threaten war with Russia if the latter Power interfered in any with the annexation of portions of Chinese territory ceded to Japan under the terms of the Treaty. Notwithstanding what she has won, it is to be concluded Japan is no exception to the rule that even the victorious nation after a war, when the cost is counted, finds the losses both in men and money, are such as to make a period of uninterrupted peace desirable to allow time for recuperation. That Japan, single-handed, could have defended herself for any great length of time against the power and nlmost inexhaustible resources of Russia, does not appear possible, while it is a certainty that the other nation?, Franc* , Germany, and England, would have been dragged into the conflict. " All's well that ends well," and we are gl;»d indeed that the war-clouds, which looked fo black a few days ago, have now been dispersed, for a time at least