JAPANESE READY TO JOIN ISSUE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2226, 12 August 1914, Page 5

JAPANESE READY TO JOIN ISSUE

i PUBLIC OPINION FAVOURS WAR A message received yesterday read as follows:—"Tokio, August 10>-Japan has issued an ultimatum in conformity with, stop message censored." . : ■ (Ecc. August 11, 9.35 p.m.) . ■ ' ' London, August 10 The Japanese Embassy. considers the report that an ultimatum has been " issued is false.. . . ■ (Eec. August 11, 11.45 p.m.) Prolonged Councils of Cabinet and the Elder Statesmen "have , , excited public opinion. ■ The newspapers ■ strongly adTOcate war, and are impatient at Japan apparently playing a subordinate part. V (Kec. August 11, 11.40 p.m.) ■ ' ■ The "Asahi ( Shimbun," afte£ quoting the first article of "the' An4o- S Jananeso Alliance, Bays: "The question of the .necessity of Japan's help depends on the interpretation of this article,,and tentish territory in the Orient fieing already ?n jeopardy the tamo has arrived for Japan td act, but apart from out obligations it ■Iβ imperative that wo should realise the crisis is already here/" Articlo I of the■ Anglo Japanese Treaty sets out:-"Tho High Contracting Parties, having mutually; recognised the independence of China and of Korea declare themselves to be entirely uninflueuced by any aggressive tendencies in dthw country. Having in view,, however, their special interests, of which those of Great Britain relate principal y.to China, while Japan, in addition to the inter€sts which she possesses in China, is iute rested in a peculiar degreei political y n well as commercialy .andindustrially, in Korea, the High Contracting Paiges recognise.that it will be admissible for either of them to take si ch mcLuros a? may be indispensable in order to safeguard those interests if threatened efthe? by the aggressive action of any other Power, or by disturbances arising in China w Ivorca, and necessitating^the intervention of either of the High Contracting Par-" ties for the protection of lives or property of its subjects." """■""ins r»r