Paris, Jan. 16.
The idea of Japanese ce-operation in Europe against Germany and Austria, at first advocated only by M. Stephen Pichon, the former rin Peking and inister of Foreign Affairs, is finding more and more favour in France. Practically all the unofficial writers and moulders of public opinion are in favour of it. The only notable exception is General Cherfils, one of the numerous retired officers who write about the war—with considerably less profit to the reader, as a rule, than he receives from more experienced wield-rs of the pen—and are supposed to draw illumi clusions from the most. supply of facts.
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