BEHIND THE SCENES.
* A GLIMPSE AT DIPLOMACY. THE ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE STORY OF THE NEGOTIATIONS. BERLIN, Aug. 26. The " Frankfurt Gazette " publishes portion of the late Count Hayashi's diary, which was suppressed by the Japanese Government on its appearance in the newspaper " Jiji Shimpo." It deals with the origin of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. Count Hayashi states that Germany suggested an English-Japa-nese-German Alliance in 1901. Lord Salisbury favoured this, but Japan objected to Germany, evidently mistrusting the latter owing to her connection with the Shimonoski treaty, whereby Japan felt robbed of the fruits of her victory over China.
Count Eckardstein, the German Charge D'Affaires in London, who suggested the alliance to Count Hayashi, said the German nation was anti-British, but the Government was not so, and both the Kaiser and Count yon Bulow -were anxious for the Alliance.
Count Hayashi told Lord Lansdown that the Japanese and English interests in China were identical, and that any other alliance would be detrimental. Lord Lansdowne apprehended the difficulties, but desired German inclusion supposedly to checkmate Franco-Russian influence in the Far East.
In the end Japan had her way after the hint that she might allay herself to Russia.
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Northern Advocate, 27 August 1913, Page 5
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