Japanese Diplomacy.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 34, 1 June 1914, Page 5

Japanese Diplomacy.

CH6NA AND THE POWERS. SUGGESTED EXTENSION OF ALLIANCE. i [By Eleoteio Teleghaph—-Copyhight] Times and Sydney Sun Services. Loudon, May 30. I Japanese diplomacy in China is being remodelled, owing to the weakenjed condition of China and the great 'energy displayeu~7>y the Powers iu scrambling for concessions. | The Daily Telegraph's correspondent says that though Okuma's suggestion that England and Japan should commercially ally themselves throughout China undoubtedly has certain j unpractical features, the hour has i sounded when the scope of the Far- | Eastern Alliance should be carefully I investigated by the contracting parties, and all possibilities of the doubtful future should be considered. In an article entitled "Japan's Changing Prospects," in this year's Daily Mail Year Book, a writer says: English commercial interests are sore at the relentless manner in which Japan's foreign trade campaign is pushed, largely at our expense. The Japanese are quite within their rights, but that makes it none the more acceptable. Above all, England is genuinely uneasy about Japanese policy in China, an uneasiness'which the official and semi-official assurances issued from Tokyo have done little to allay. . . . Unfortunately, events havo seemed to point to the intention of the Japanese Government to adopt a policy towards China which will convulse the Far East. Many Japanese supported the South in the* recent Chinese rebellion; Japanese public opinion generally sympathised with the South. When the rebellion failed, Japanese mobs demanded military and naval action against China. The Director of the Bureau of Foreign Politics, Mr Abe, was murdered jby a fanatic because of the supposed moderation of hi 8 policy. The demonstrators were backed secretly by a strong military party. Commercially, Japan is going ahead with a certainty that surprises most observers. . . ~ One may criticise some

of the methods of the new Japan. It is impossible to deny the strength, the amazing vitality, the determination, or the steady advance of her people.