The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-12
ANGL0- JAPANESE ALLIANCE
IMPORTANT UADAKSIANDING RE- GARDING CHINA IND COREA.

toriaI Status Quo, Either tn China 0
 Adjoining Regions-War Provisions
 London, Feb. 11.-An important parli
 amentary paper was issued to-nigh
 giving the terms of a practical allianc,
 between Great Britain and Japan fo
 the preservation of China and Corea
 The paper covers a dispatch sent by
 Lord Lansdowne, the secretary of state
 for foreign affairs, on January 30 tc
 the British minister at Tokio, Sil
 Claude M. MacDonald and comprises 8
 signed copy of the agreement. In ex-
 planation the paper says that the agreement may be regarded as an out
 years. Throughout the Boxer troubles
 Great Britain and Japan had been in close and uninterrupted communication ana dCCud lSu DV Sl1llldT VIEWS.
 we each desired" says Lord Lans- downe, that the the integrity and i'm dependence of the Chinese empire should be preserved and that there should be no disturbance of the territo- rial staus quo, either in China or the adjoining regions"
 The discovery that their far eastern policies were identical resulted in each party to the agreement expressing the desire that their common policy find ex- pression in an international contract of binding vitality.
 Lord Lansdowne further says that the British government was largely infiu- enced in entering upon this important contract by the conviction that it con- tains no provisions which can be re- garded as aggressive or self-seeking. He says it is concluded merely as measure of precaution and that it in no way threatens the present position or legitimate interests of other powers
 His majesty's government trusts that the agreement will be of mutual advan- tage to the two countries and make for the preservation of peace. And should peace unfortunately be broken it will have the effect of restricting the area of hostilities. The following are the terms of the agreement, signed in Lon don January 30;
 The governments of Great Britain and Japan, actuated solely by desire to maintain the status quo and general 1 peace in the extreme east, and being, | moreover. especially interested in main taining the independence and territorial | integrity of China and Corea and in se- curing equal opportunities in their countries for the commerce and indus try of all nations, hereby agree as fol- lows
 Article 1.-The high contracting par ties. having mutually recognized the in dependence of China and Corea, declare themselves to be entirely uninhuenced by any aggressive tendencies in either their especial interests, of which those of Great Britain relate principally to China, while Japan, in addition to the terested in peculiar degree, politically as well as commercially and industrial ly, in Corea, the sgnatories recognize that it will be admissible for either of them to take such measures as may be in order to safeguard those interests, if these be threatened either by the aggressive action of any other power or by disturbances arising in China or Corea, necessitating the in- t tervention of either of the contracting , parties for the protection of the lives a and property of it's subjects. Article Eff either Great Britain or Japan, in defense of their respective in .erests. as above described, should be- .ome involved in a war with another bower the other contracting party will V strict neutrality and use it's ,fforts to prevent other powers from \ oining in the hostilities against it's ally. Article 3-If, in the above event any C ,ther power or powers should join in s lostilities against that ally, the other lf party will come to it's as tt stance and will conduct war in com