To the Editor of the "Norru-Caiva Darty News."
Sin,—While it cannot be denied that your leading article of the 13th instant dealing with an eventual alliance between Britain and Japan probably reflects the opinions of most men who give thought to the problem, there are omissions in it Whicu go to the root of the whole subject as it presents itself to the world to-day, and wore particulacly as it affects China. 1 have no doubt that you will permit me to state one or two of these omissions, for without giving the raison d@étre for the Anglo-Japanese alliance, and the evidence of its working we shall lack all, understanding of the motives which now impel such a large proportion of interested people to oppose a renewal, even in a modified form, of an alliance between the two countries. Leaving on one side the anachronism of alliances (which a proper: League of. Nations should wake superfluous), we ask; what was the reason of the Anglo-Japanese alliance?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.