The Juvan Times contains the following paragraph 'A London telegram received in Tokio on the 2st, states that Lord. Salisbury, Britis: Premier, in his speech in the House of Lords, disclosed the particulars of the Anglo-Japanese alliance in regard to the Chinese question, and the policy to be adopted in future, and that the Times in an editorial greatly approved the Premier's iplomatie policy.
The paragraph, as it stands, is calculate mislead, we think. According to our information, Lord Salisbury did not. speak of an" Anglo-Japanese alliance." He could hardly have spoken of what does not exist. What happened, we believe, was this. Interrogated by Lord Kimberley as to whether Mr. Chamber-Jain's utterances in Birmingham might be regarded as expressing the views entertained by the Cabinet, the Marquis of Sah bury declined to express a definite opinion until he had the full speech before him. He went on to say, however, that he entirely approved of the policy of the previous Cabinet' in declining to join the Powers which combined to deprive of the fruits of her victory a country whose interests in the Enst were identical with those of Great Britain. It was a very emphatic utterance, the most emphatic hitherto made by the Prime Minister but it did not amount to any declaration of an alliniee.—Japan Mail.
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