According to a "Times" telegram, the "Toronto Globe" opposes the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. It declares that neither Power needs such an Alliance for defensive purposes, and points to the increasing friction between the United States and Japan concerning the status of Japanese settlers on the Pacific coast, in which question, it says, Great Britain and the Dominions are not concerned. It believes that Canada and Australia are more likely to side with the United States than with Japan, should a choice be necessary.
The "Globe" adds: Canada, treaty or no treaty, will feel no obligation to help Japan against the United States. The statesmen of the British Empire who are safeguarding Britain's interests in the Far East doubtless understand that Canada can be no party to an international agreement that involves such a great risk.""—Reuter.
No Secret Clauses Whatever London, Jan. 4.
Reuter learns that a high British authority announces that the suggestion, emanating from the United States, that there are secret clauses in the Anglo-Japanese Treaty, is absolutely devoid of foundation. Article Four of the Treaty effectively prevents in any contingency Great Britain taking the side of Japan against America—a point of view in which Japan fully concurs.
It is realized that the events arising out of the war and the establishment of the League of Nations necessitate a readjustment of the Alliance, but it is unlikely That any consideration of this readjustment will be possible until the Dominions have been consulted.—Reuter.
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