The recent London and Berlin messages reaching here regarding Germany's attitude is the Far Eastern politics have attracted keen atte! An_ alleger formation of a new East Asiatic Triple Alliance is generally discredited here, and Germmny is expected to stick to' the neutrality which she has hitherto observed in relation to the Manchurian question. From late foreign telegrams and my own information, 1 gather that Germany is now playing an opportunist game, but. would really be will the pres-ut difficulty if occasion served.
still difficalt to see how such a plan now reported to be entertained by siser, has any locus standi.""
Conciliatory Attempts. he conciliatory attempts made by the Russian Press are said to have found no echo in the German Press. which only declares that the Russian newspapers are greatly mistaken if they think that Germany is to depart from a position of strict neutrality in the extreme Orient. In the meantime L may define the current state of aff follows:—(1) Since it has become a subject of the direct Russo-Japanese negotiations, the Manchurien question is attracting the serious attention of the Eowers on account of its international it (2) Russi: recognising her position is isolated, us been more than once sounding the Powers; (3) Germany is still intending to. observe the strictest neutrality.
tain is now Japan's ally and the United States is prepared to act the two Island Empires.
Franco-Russian Allinnce has been already extended to the Far East but in its actual force an' effectiveness, the Franco-Russinn alliance is no match for the Anglo-Japanese coalition, assisted by the U. S.
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