ANGLO-JAPANESE TREATY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10748, 12 September 1913, Page 5

ANGLO-JAPANESE TREATY.

A STORY OF INTRIGUE. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph— Copyright. Received September 1 2, 9 a.m. Tokio, September 11. Baron Hayashi's reminisceuses which are appearing in instalments in the Fuji Shimpo show that Lord Lansdowne kept Germany informed of the course of the Anglo-Japanese negotiations for some time, but when Germany was shown the Anglo-Japanese Treaty when it was signed Count Von Bulow refused to participate, owing to umbrage with Britain over other questions. The story of the negotiations indicates that Baron Hayashi suggested that Japan should utilise Britain's iear of a Russo-Japanese Alliance with a view to hastening the AngloJapanese Treaty. Then, when negotiations with Britain were considerably advanced Count Ito, who was Premier when they began, went on a special mission to St. Peters burg and there commenced pourparlers for a Russo-Japanese Convention Baron Hayashi's stigmatises this as an outrageous breach of faith. The Mikado ordered Count Ito to desist. The final shape of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance was largelydue to Lord Lausdowne's statesmanship. Baron Hayashi severely censured Japan's diplomatic intrigues and declared that the Alliance with England was secured at the cost of the respect of Russia and other European countries.