ARBITRATION TREATIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 121, 14 July 1911, Page 5

ARBITRATION TREATIES.

London, July 13. “The Times” states that public interest is beginning to be roused in both Japan and America by the effect of the Anglo-American arbitration upon the British-Japanese alliance. The existing alliance is incomparable in form, if not in fact, with any general arbitration treaty between Britain and a third Power. It was difficult to modify an alliance obviating the incongruity without raising the whole question of ‘revision and prolongation. If it were true that Britain had arranged with Japan that clause 2 of the treaty would not apply when either ally Was fighting a nation with which the other had concluded an arbitration treaty; it was a step taken without the full consultation of the dominion Ministers.