FAR EASTERN ALLIANCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12253, 2 June 1914, Page 5

FAR EASTERN ALLIANCE.

CHINA'S WEAKENED POSITION

Times and Sydney Sun Services.

[By Eleotric Telegraph—Copyright.]

(Per Press Association.) London, May 31. Japanese diplomacy in China is being remodelled, owing to tho weakened condition of China and the great energy displayed by the Powers who are scrambling for concessions. ; The Daily Telegraph's, correspondent advises that though Count Okuma's suggestion that England and Japan should commercially ally themselves throughout China undoubtedly has certain nonpractical features, the hour has arrived when the scope of the Far Eastern Alliance schould be carefully investigated bv the contracting parties and all possibilities of the doubtful future considered. .