We have received another long manifesto from a Chinese society calling itself the "Ten Men Union Association," directed against the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. A quotation must suffice. After referring to the good relations that have so long existed between China and "our dear English friends," it continues Now since the promulgation of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty, Japan had been S, cgustant source of international "in. ricaci¢s. Although the sword his not been drawn by weak China, yet the hatred of her people towards the Japanese Empive is only heightened by every international "accident. The " pressure Japan brings to bear upon China at present will never be forgotten—when the Chinese as " whole are able to stud up and shake hands with the world's great Powers in readjusting her ial relations. Thay may not wipe out the Japanese Empire, but they wil] make it totter. The Korean revolution, the old _Rusco-Japanese hatred, and the Philippine question will then all come up as a bolt from the blue, if the time is ripe for such, That they will be terrible enough ta engage Japan in a death and life struggle is certain. It is on this ground that We do not wish to sce our English friends drawn into the whirlpool of a future war by binding themselves firmly at present in such a contract as the Anglo-Japanese Treaty.
This manifesto, though vague enough, is more threatening than most. What the influence of this particular Association may be, we do not know. But all these docnments are published in the Chinese Press and help te mould public! opinion, a fact.not to be forgotten. Meanwhile Chinese readers may be reminded that the Alliance is to be submitted to the League of Nations Counci] to which China has been invited to send a representative.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.