A SENSATIONAL STORY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 96, 27 August 1913, Page 6

A SENSATIONAL STORY.

ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE. By Electric Telegraph-Copyright]

[United Press Association.] (Received 12 p.m.) Berlin, 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 icwspaper Jiji Shimpo. It deals with ho origin of the Anglo-Japanese -Vllianco. Count Hayashi states that Germany suggested an English-Japan-'se-German alliance in 1901. Lord ■Salisbury favored it, hut Japan objected to Germany, evidently misTusting the latter owing to her connection with the Shimonoseki treaty, whereby Japan felt she was robbed of the fruits of her victory. Herr Eckardstpin, German charge d’affaires in London, who suggested the alliance L o Count Hayashi, said the German nation was much anti-British, hut the Government was not so, and both the Kaiser and Prince von Bulow were inxious for the alliance. Count Hayashi told Lord Lansdowne that Tapan’s and the English interests in China were identical and any other illiance would he detrimental. Lord Lansdowne apprehended difficulties, but desired German inclusion, supposedly to checkmate Franco-Russian influence in the Far East. In the end she had her way, after a hint that she might, ally herself to Russia.