According to translations made by the "Japan Advertiser," the Japanese papers express their views on the Anglo-Japanese Alliance as follows.
The "Asahi? (Osaka) says:
is noteworthy that the question of the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance is being discussed more earnestly in America than in either Great Britain or Japan, both of which are, of course, more closely interested in the matter. Perhaps the anxiety of America is due to a desire to extend the stipulation in the Anglo-Japanese Alliance which says that in case either high contracting party has concluded a treaty of arbitration with a third country, that party is under no obligation to assist the other in case this is at War with that third country, In other words, America's desire is to make more definite provision so that, Great Britain can be prevented from helping Japan in case of war between this country and America. Boiled down, the present attitude of America' toward the, Anglo-Japanese Alliance is nothing more nor less than another manifestation of Japanophobia from which she is a chronic sufferer.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.