THE PEACE TREATY

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1092, 3 April 1911, Page 5

THE PEACE TREATY

DRAFT IN PREPARATION, BRITISH ALLIANCE WITH JAPAN NO OBSTACLE. THE ARBITRATION MACHINERY By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyriclit (Rec. April 2, 5.5 p.m.) New York, April 2. The British Ambassador, Mr. James Brycc, and llio American Secretary of State, Mr. Knox, are conferring at Washington us to the terms of the proposed unlimited arbitration treaty. Reasonable progress has been made, ami a denial has been issued that Japan's Alliance with Groat Britain is likely to affect the negotiations. It is hoped that the draft treaty will' be ready for submission to the Senate before the April Eession ends. The treaty provides for arbitration in the case of all treaty disputes, including questions of national honour, which are excluded from the existing treaty. The arbitration machinery is to be arranged by special agreements when the need arises. MR. BRYCE SEES THE PRESIDENT. (Rec. April 3, 0.15 a.m.) New York, April 27 Mr. Bryce and Mr. Taft are conferring as to the terms of the arbitration treaty. BRITISH OBLIGATIONS TO JAPAN. TERMS OF THE ALLIANCE. "You hope to sign a general arbitration treaty with the United States, and your position will then be that you will be bound to fight any enemy of Japan, and so conceivably the United btates; and, on the other hand, you will be bound not to fight the United States at all. "With one or other of these Powers, therefore, your treaty must go, for it will be based upon an equivocation. —fco wrote "Colonel Donner unci Blitzen' in a recent contribution from its military correspondent published by "The Times. The position appears to be one that will need some consideration in arranging the new treaty. The Anglo-Japanese Alliance was concluded in August, 1905. Its object was the consolidation and maintenance of the general peaco in the regions of Eastern Asia and of India; (b) the preservation of the common interests of all Powers In China by.insuring the independence and integrity of the Chinese Empire and the principle of equal opportunities for the commerce and industry of all nations in China; (c) the maintenance of the territorial rights of the High Contracting Parties in the regions of Eastern Aeia and of India, and the defence of their special interests in the said regions. If the rights and interests referred to above are in jeopardy, the two Governments will communicate with one another fully and frankly as to the measures which should be taken to safeguard those menaced rights or interests, and will act in common in case of unprovoked attack or aggressive action, wherever arising, on the part of any other Power or Powers. Japan's paramount political, military, and economic interests in Korea, and Great Britain's special interest in all that concerns the security of the Indian frontier, are mutually recognised. The agreement remains in force for ten years from August 12, 1905, and unless denounced, twelve months before, the. expiration of tho said ten years, it will remain binding until tho expiration of one year from the day on which either of the High Contracting Parties shall have denounced it. But if, when the date fixed for its expiration arrives, cither ally is actually engaged in war, the alliance shall, ipso facto, continue until peace is concluded. An exchange of notes formulating a common policy in the Far East took place in November, 1908, between the Japanese and United States Governments. Tho . identical paragraphs of the noto were as follow:— . "1. It is tho wish of the two Governments to encourage the free and peaceful development of their commerce' on the Pacific Ocean. "2. The policy of both-Governments, uninfluenced by any aggressive tendencies, is directed to tho maintenance of tho existing status quo in tho region abort mentioned, and. to the defence of the principle of equal opportunity for commerce and industry of all nations m China. "5. Should any event occur threatening the status as above described, or tho Sriiiciplo of equal opportunity as above efined, it remains for the two Governments to communicate with each other in order to arrive at an understanding as to what measures they'may consider it as useful to take."