Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-10
WILL AFFECT INDIA
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ANGLO
JAPANESE TREATY.

r LONDON, September 9.-The new Anglo
Japanese treaty will be given out early next
week. The Associated Press was informed
at the foreign Office this evening" that the
delay in making the treaty public was
caused by the carrying out of minor de-
tails of routine. printing. etc
Great secrecy continues to be maintained
in regard to the provisions of the treaty,
but the substance of 1t already given in the
Associated Press dispatches is generally
cepted correct.
While much broader in scope than the
agreement of 1902, which expired with the
successful termination of the peace nego-
tiations between Russia and Japan. it be-
ing expressly stated that should the date
of expiry arrive while either party was
engaged in war it should be continued until
peace was concluded, the new treaty Is un-
derstood not to be much longer than the
old, and the increase in the number of ar
ticles therein is partly due to the changed
conditions in Korea.
China and Korea.
In the old agreement the provision re-
spectng China and Korea was contained
in the first clause, while in the new treaty
it is believed the undertakings with
gard to these kingdoms occupy separate
clauses. This is necessary in order to give
Japan free hand in Korea. The open door
here is guaranteed and the rights of all
nations are recognized In much the same
way as In the Russo-Japanese peace treaty,
which probably accounts for JapanS ready
acauescence to NJ Whites requests that
Japan modify her original demands re-
garding control of the hermit kingdom.
Likewise the open door in China is as
sured; and, while taking every precauton
to safeguard the interests of the contract
ing parties, it is believed the agreement
contains nothing which in any way in
terferes with the existing rights of other
powers, but is understood to be framed to
prevent attempts looking to the partition
of China.
As Affecting India.
Clauses two and three of the old treaty,
covering the conditions under which either
ally comes to the assistance of the other
when attacked by any two powers when the
far eastern interests of the allies af-
fected, are understood to be completely
changed SO as to bring one ally to the as
sistance of the other even If attacked by
one power. In this respect 1t is especially
interesting to Europe applicable to all
of Asia up to the line crossing north and
south through Persia as indicated by the
ffty-tirst degree of longitude, which brings
India within the scope of this significant
extension of the agreement.
The clauses of the old treaty providing
that neither ally shall enter into agree
ment with olner powers WITHOUT coHs ulllllS
the other, and that whenever their inter-
ests are ieopardiZed the two countries shall
consult fully and frankly, will undoubtedly
be retained, though they will probably be
somewhat broadened.
Another clause, as in the old treaty, is
expected to deal with the life of the treaty
and the terms under which other govern
ments may give notice of its withdrawal
therefrom. The greatest interest in Lon
don, of course, attaches to that portion of
the treaty affecting India, and the publica-
ton of the full text is awaited with some
anxiety, which is heightened by the abso-
lutte secrecy maintained in all official circles
regarding it.