The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1911. BRITAIN AND JAPAN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 13, 31 August 1911, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1911. BRITAIN AND JAPAN.

The new Anglo-Japanese Treaty, signed last month, prolongs the subsisting Alliance until July, 1921, and it provides that, should either party make a Treaty of General Arbitration with a third Power, such party shall not b'O bound by the Treaty of Alliance to go to war with such third Power. It is not often, the “Times” remarks, that the signature of any Treaty brings assurance of peace to so large a part of civilised mankind. We have more than once pointed out that to sign a General Arbitration Treaty, such as that which we are negotiating with the United States, while the Treaty of 1905 with Japan remained unaltered, would be to involve ourselves in obligations which might conflict. Great Britain and Japan have good reasons to ite satisfied with the reception generally given to the renewal of their alliance. America shares our gratification at the removal 'of an obstacle to our General Arbitration Treaty with her, and at the fact that Japan has actively helped to remove it, while, after some doubts and hesitations before the real character of the changes was understood, the Japanese press is recognising more and more the advantages it confers on both signatories alike. In Canada the practical exclusion of the United States f rom its operation removes the only objection of the Dominion to the Treaty : and Australian opinion is to the effect that the Treaty affords one of the most substantial guarantees of peace that the Empire has secured.