Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1895 — ALLIES OF THE JAPS. [ARTICLE]

ALLIES OF THE JAPS.

ENGLAND AND UNCLE SAM WITH THE MIKADO. With Tw<rP«w«rfut Friend! the Demands of the Russian Bear Are Laughed to Ecorn Montreal the Scene of a Terrible Accident. Defies Her Big Foe. London advices say that England will give JapaS open support in the ratification of the treaty of peace with China. A friendly understanding exists between the mikado add Lord Rosebery’s government. But this is not all. This tacit alliance is a triple one and the United States is the third party to it. Japanese diplomats, with WDjiderful astuteness, have been, for weeks preparing for the situation which now confronts the nations. They recognized that if they could secure even the moral support of England and America in settling the terms of peace with their conquered foe Japan could afford to ignore or defy the rest of the world. England entered heartily into the arrangement and representatives of both Japan and England are now using the most strenuous efforts to induce the United States to stand by its tacit agreement and join in protecting Japan against foreign interference. Such an attitude, it is represented, would not be repugnant to the American policy, but it is a peculiarly unusual and strange one for Great Britain to assume. Japan watches with keen interest the course of the European powers regarding the Shimoneseki treaty. Japanese diplomats are not particularly apprehensive of the outcome. The refusal of England to act in concert with Russia, Germany and France has encouraged the Japanes/to believe that no strong single policy can be agreed on by the countries that feel their interests in the East are threatened by the terms of the peace. Germany is thought to be but half-hearted in her cooperation with France and Russia, if such co-operation has been assured. Much confidence is felt in the assurances of good

feeling given by Great Britain and the United States. The Russian Prince Uchtomoky, who accompanied the present czar on his tour in the East, has written a long communication to the Moscow Viedomosti explaining the threatening features of the situation in the Orient. He declares that Russian intervention is inevitable. It would be criminal neglect, he thinks, if Russia were to allow Japan to menace Russia’s interests in east Asia, as is contemplated in the Shimoneseki treaty. He expresses the fear that bloodshed will be necessary before Japan’s aggressive spirit can be checked. He regards the Japanese as intoxicated with the completeness of their victory and determined to force upon the rest of the world a policy which all nations having interests in east Asia must frustrate, by peaceful means if possible, but otherwise by the sword. Washington Diplomats Secretive. A 'Washington dispatch says the report by cable that England and Japan were making strenuous efforts to secure the cooperation of the United States to prevent other powers from interfering in the making of the treaty of peace between Japan and China and control certain of its terms, was referred-to the Japanese Legation. Minister Kurino is sick, but questions as to the truth of the story were answered to the effect that nothing was known of it at the Japanese Legation. If efforts were being made to bring the United States into the affair on the side of Japan they were not being participated in by Minister Kurino. There is high authority for the statement that nothing of the kind had been urged at the State Department by either the English or Japanese diplomats. So far, at least, no invitation to the United States to interfere in any way in the treaty making between China and Japan had come from any source. It was stated emphatically that no attitude of interference would be assumed by the United States now or hereafter, no matter who issued the invitation or who urged it.