BRITAIN AND JAPAN.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12796, 30 September 1905, Page 3

BRITAIN AND JAPAN.

COMMENT BY. POWERS AND PRESS. United Press Association—Per . Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September 28. German comments on the Anglo-Japan-ese Treaty are divided. Some recommend closer relations, or a counter alliance between the Kaiser and the Czar. The broad terms of clause. IV. are. viewed with alarm at St. Petersburg, .and are considered susceptible of the widest interpretation. There is great satisfaction in Japan, and the signing of the agreelnent was celebrated with illuminations, in : Tokio; but' the reference to India is not regarded with entire favour in:some-quarters. .Reuter's. Berlin correspondent states that Britain has communicated the text of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance to. the various Governments. ST. PETERSBURG, September 28. The "Novoe Vremya" considers that the Treaty enslaves Asia, and is obviously primarily directed against Bussia. The special interests of the allies are so elastically defined that they may stretch from the Pacific Ocean to* the Persian Gulf. PARIS, September 28. The French Press recognise the Treaty as the pivot of the whole world's policy. No Power would accept the dangerous risk' attacldng it,- and the Powers must bow before Lord Lansdowne's 1 master stroke. TOKIO, September 28. Count Ito, on being interviewed, said the Treaty was the impregnable bulwark of peace in the Far East, inaugurating a new period of. phenomenal commercial and economic - development, besides promoting the advancement of civilisation. BERLIN, September 28. German official, opinion-does not object to the Treaty, since the integrity of China, and. the "open door" to the trade of all nations are guaranteed. Many newspapesr insist that its brutally aggressive character is levelled, first against Russia, aid; secondly and thirdly against Germany and France. NEW YORK, September 28." v The American Press consider that it assures peace for years, and are greatly gratified at .the endorsing of the late Mr John Hay's policy of the "open door." EFFECT OF THE ALLIANCE. Received 11.4Q p.m., September 29. LONDON, September 29. Baron Okuma on being interviewed, said that the Alliance would ensure the peace of the whole world, and the benefit would I extend to all nations!. It -was gratifying i beyond expression that- non-Christian Ja-

pan had been admitted to an equal footing with the greatest power. He believed that Russia, instead of feeling aversion to the alliance, would welcome such a powerful guardian of the peace enabling l her to devote herself to national improvement and development.

. BERLIN, September 29. Pnnce von Bulow remarked to the Japanese Minister that tbe alliance was a fresh guarantee of tranquility in the East and the Pacific, and competition among commerce and shipping.

_ _ TOKIO, September 29. The majority of the newspapers at Tokio state that business jcircjes are delighted with the alliance.