Special Mention | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 4, 1902

Special Mention.

A Warlike Alliance.

The new alliance between Great Britain and Japan, the purpose of which, as announced, is to maintain the independence and territorial integrity of the empire of China and the empire of Korea, is quite generally regarded as foreshadowing an early clash of arms between Japan and Russia, in which possibly Great Britain and France will participate.

Speaking of the probabilities in the matter, the Literary Digest says: “Notoriously, Japan wants to fight Russia. The desire for war with the czar’s empire is almost unanimous throughout Japan. It has been more than acknowledged, it has been professed and proclaimed, ever since the conclusion of Japan’s war with China. The new alliance provides that in case of war between Japan and any other single Power over the far Eastern question, England shall remain neutral; but that if two Powers attack Japan, England will come to her aid.”

The Buffalo Express observes that Japan might begin the war with an ultimatum to China demanding the expulsion of Russia from Manchuria, and would then find herself at war with both China and Russia, and entitled by the terms of the treaty to England’s aid. “It certainly is the strongest, most belligerent action,” says this paper, “that the British government has taken, where a great Power was concerned, since the close of the Russo-Turkish War.”