JAPAN AND GERMANY.

Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 86, 11 April 1916, Page 5

JAPAN AND GERMANY.

It has bo-en established, on no less. an authority than the word of tho> Japanese Premier, Count Okuma,, that Germany h.as approached Japan, witii a- viev/ of seeking tornis of peace. Thi;-. announcement, coming; so soon after Japan's public declaration of her intention not- to conclivdoa separate peace from the Allies, is. regarded, as significant. Just in what, form Germany has boon seeking toconclude a separate peace with Japan: fount. Okuma does not'explain,- buc:. he sufficiently hints at it .to allow inference. H*> suggests that the at- • tempt of Germany to induce .Japan to agree to separate terms of peaco was through influential private inclivi--duals and other sources, and that sho: has approached Russia in a similar manner. Whilo' dwelling on the fnel>. >& that Japan has- teen thus approached,. Count Okuma insists that such proposals can find no hearing amoiij^ members of the Imperial and declares that Japan will nevei* consent to discuss terms of peacowith Germany except with the knowledge and concurrence of Britain. Count Okuma goa-J on .to express the-" opinion that as Germany, was the instigator of the present- conflict shoshovfM be well punished and brought--to repentance before- h-r opponents-; 'determine to end present- hostilities-