ANGLO-JAPANESE TREATY.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 341, 15 February 1902, Page 3

ANGLO-JAPANESE TREATY.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, Feb. 10. The Japanese Diet greeted the announcement of the treaty with tremendous cheers. The Japanese press declares that it will assist towards tbe maintenance of peace.

Chinese statesmen are surprised and delighted.

The treaty gives British prestige a tremendous impulse. Diplomatists at Pekin predict as a consequence of the Anglo-Japanese alliance that the Manchuria treaty between Russia and China will not be signed. German newspapers unanimously represent the treaty as a distinct check on Russia, and rather advantageous to Germany.

The Paris newspaper Debats says Great Britain has achieved a great success in Manchuria.

The opinion is that the open-door policy secured oy the British and Japanese alliance will be of value in protecting G*reat Britain’s important interests.

M. Cassini says the treaty will neither hasten or retard the evacuation ot Manchuria by Russia.

AUSTRALIAN OPINIONS. Sydney, Feb. 14. The Japanese treaty is generally viewed with approval in political and commercial circles. Mr Barton cousiders there is not the slightest reason for unrest amongst the people of Australia if an open-door policy is maintained. The treaty is largely a commercial one, and anything that will advance the trading interests of Great Britain was for the good of the trading interests of Australia. It placed the Empire in a much stronger position, both from a naval and military standpoint. It does not increaso the risk of attack upon Australia.

Mr Reid says it is one of the most momentous steps that Great Britain has taken in the last quarter of a contury, fraught with the gravest issues. If, as he surmises, America is behind Great Britain and Japan, then we can welcome another great advance towards the ultimate fusion of the Anglo-Saxon race. The Queensland Premier considers the treaty will have the result of making the Commonwealth Parliament more circumspect in dealing with the Japanese.