GERMANY AND JAPAN

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 262, 1 August 1919, Page 7

GERMANY AND JAPAN

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TRANSLATION OF DRAFT

(Ifroin the ilebo.urnle "Age.")

Melbourno, July IS. A cable message from .Washington, U.S.A., published in the "Age," intimated that the Senate had adopted a resolution asking President Wilson to furnish details of the secret treaty alleged to have been orupeted between Japan and Germany in 1903. A translation of the draft of the alleged treaty has reached the "Age" from a reliable source. A opy of the dounient was-obtained by Major Slaughter, U.S. Army, attalied to the Siberian army for speial service, from tho archives of Perm, apturetl from the Russians on February 2 of this year. It was telegraphed n iphor on I'obruar.v 21 from 'Ekaterinburg to. Vladivostok, and thence again in ipher to Wassing and Europe. The translation reads as follows:— . ■ 1. Both ontrating parties bind themselves, as soon as the worlcd politial situation permits, to help the third party, Russia, to obtain, under their diretion, the settlement of hcer internal affaire and the position of a world Power.

2. One of the high contracting parties, Japan, binds herself to allow the other high ontracting party, Germany, the enjoyment of the prerogatives growing out of her treaties with the third party, Enssia, as far as .tliey concern Central Asia and Persia, and assist in the conclusion of a most favoured nation treaty, with mutual (reciprocal) guarantees .between the third Power and the two conti acting Powers.

3. One of the high contracting parties,. Japan, binds herself to allow the- othtr contracting party, Germany, the enjoyment of the rights of most favoured nation given to her by the treaties, in Southern China, and of ertnin privileges growing out this treaty as yet to be tie. fined in a special treaty, and in this connection both contracting parties bihd themselves not to allow the passing of further concessions in regions "jv-t tb be definitely defines 'into ihe hicds of foreign Powers—America and EnTand. 4. One of the higfir contracting parties, Japan, binds herself indirectly to prottect the interests of the other'high contracting party, Germany, in the coming Peace Conference, in a manner agreeable to that parts-, ifc order that she might suffer as little as possible from the onerous terms of peo.ee in respect to territorial and financial losaes. 5. One of the two high contracting parties binds herself on the basis of a treaty to be concluded with the third power after her restoration to secure for tho other contracting party, Germany, the conclusion of a treaty of mutual (reciprocal) guarantees, military, political, and economic, and to lend her services to the other party, Germany, in this direction; 6. I return for this the other high contracting part}', Germany, binds herself to conclude a secret military convention on land and sea with the aim of an alliance of mutual (reciprocal) guarantees and mutual protection against the aggressive intentions of America and England, the details to be worked out immediately niter the .conclusion of peace by specially empowered delegates of both high contracting parties.

7. Tho secret treaty resulting liorefrom will define the basic lines of foreign policy ot the three high contracting parties, and may in its full extent and in all its individual paragraphs be worked out immediately after the re-establishing of the third high contracting party, Russia. 8. The present treaty is concluded for a period of iivo years, counting from the moment of the restoration of the third party, with the exception of paragraph four, which goe? into effect immediately upon receipt of certi Urates' of ratification. In casj none of the high contracting parties announces six months before the end of tho five years' period the intention of discontinuing the action of tho treaty, it automatically remains in force for :i further five years' period until one or\inothcr of the contracting parties signifies its intention of discontinuing it. 9. The present treaty' should 'be ratified as soon as. possible, and certificates of ratification should be prepared in t'l plicate in French and Germany, the German text being the authentic one for Germany and the French text for Japan. The final end of such an aliance as that piovided for, in tho above document would be tho complete removal of England from Asia, the isolation, of England from America, through Canada and India, and the economic expulsion of America from Siberia and England from Hussi.i on the one hand, and the exploitation of China, Central Asia, and'l'ersia'on the other, the sphere? of influence lieing divided according t the ■following bomlartes:—Germany receives freedom of action in South China, Persia, and Central Asia, while Japan can declare , her pretensions in Northern China, Manchuria, Korea, und Eastern Siberia.