CABLEGRAMS.
DIPLOMACY OF THE EAST. BRITISH-JAPANESE ALLIANCE HOW IT-CAME- ABOUT. EXCLUSION OF GERMANY. A CONVINCING THREAT. BEKHjIN 1, August 26. The Frankfurt Gazette publishes a portion of Count, Hayashi's diary, which was suppressed by the Japanese Government on its appearance in the newspaper Jiji Shimpo. * This deals with the origin of the AngloJapanesejilliance. Count Hayashi states that Germany suggested an English-Japanese-German alliance in 1901. Lord Salisbury favoured but! Japan objected to Germany, evidently mistrusting the latter owingl to her connection with the Shimonoseki treaty, whereby Japan felti robbed of the fruits of her victory. Eckardsteari, German in charge of affaire in London, who suggested "the alliance to Count Hayashi, said the German nation was too much antii-;British, but the Government was not so. "Both the Kaiser and Herr Yon Bulow were anxious for the alliance. Count Hayashi told Lord Lansdowne that Japanese and England's interests in China Avere identical, and that any ether alliance would be detrimental. Lord Lansdowno apprehended difficulties but desired German inclusion, supposedly to checkmate the FrancoIlussian influence in the Far East. In the end Japan had her way after • a hint that she might ally herself to • Russia. :
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Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 14611, 29 August 1913, Page 2
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