BRITAIN AN JAPAN

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10288, 17 July 1911, Page 5

BRITAIN AN JAPAN

CABLE NEWS

United Press Association — By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.

THE TrfEATY RENEWED.

A NEW PROVISION.

(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.)

LONDON, July 15

The Anglo-Japanese Treaty has been renewed for a, term of ten years.

Articles 3, 4 and 6 do not appear in the new Treaty. The Article which replaces Article 4 provides that, should either of the parties conclude a treaty or general arbitration with a third Power, nothing in the Treaty shall entail upon such, contracting party the obligation to go to war with the Power with whom the treaty or arbitration is in force.

The Treaty expires in 1921 only if notice is given. The Times .states that the Dominion Ministers have given their unreserved support to the Treaty, which therefore carries a new authority and moral force. It represent the first fruits of a great departure in foreign policy. The old Treaty would have been determinable at a moment's notice. New factors affecting the situation coming into operation, ilb; was clearly judicious to arrange beforehand.

It is notorious, says the Times, that large sections of public opinion in the Dominions have looked askance at alliance, because they wero haunted by the fear that one day it would entangle Great Britain in a contest' with the United States. Such a, discontent and misgiving in Dominions was not now apprehended. The Japanese themselves had helped Great Britain towards! the conclusion of the Treaty. Continuing, the Times says that the United State® and Dominion Ministers will be able to assure their, felow-citizens, from a knowledge derived directly from Sir Edward Grey, how valuable fbhe alliance with Japan had been, and was likely to' be, in the cause of the world's peace.

-!■ The Times attributes, .to the successful establishment of compulsory training, and the creation of a local navy, the diminution in Australian hositiliity to the Anglo-Japanese. alliance. Japan's prowess, it says, -reates a factor in the establishing of a sense of national responsibility for the Australian ideals—notably, a "white Australia." The experience of New Zealand had been similar, though panic-mongering was occasionally observably.