ALLIANCE, "TateRe is-no longer any room to question the fact," says the organ of the Japanese Government, the Japan Mail, "that the bases of an understanding have been arranged between Russia and Japan with regard to the Corean question. Nothing in the shape of a treaty has been concluded, or will be concluded, Still the Governments of St, Petersburg and Tokio have certainly arrived at an entente, the gist of which is that the two agree to act in concert for the purpose of preserving order in Coren, Presumably the understanding extends to the stationing of troops in the peninsula." And when two men ride on a horse, the proverb rans, one must ride. behind, and it is not Russia that will ride behind on the Corean pony. It is very amusing to see the Japan Mail explaining that as Japan could not hope to eliminate Russia from Corea, she was right to accept "the great advantage of bringing within the control of mutual agreement the very Power whose southward growth constituted Japan's present source of anxiety on account of Corea,
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