The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-01-04
Especial Cable from the Information:
News SeryicaD
BY HERBERT TEMPLE.

London Jan 4. Preoceupied
though the English public mind is
with the many difficult and important
domestic political problems which the
dying year leaves behind, farsishted
statesmen are rather more worried
about the problems which the empire
may be called to face in the far east
than about politics at home 1t may
be stated, without fear of serious con-
tradiction. that the jay which hailed
Great Britain's alliance with the new
born giant OF the far east and conaue-
ror of Russia has died out in Eng
land. Entering into this alliance prin-
cipally from reasons which never
could lay any claims to unselfishness.
England is beginning to get rather
unpleasant feeling of having entered
into political partnership with a ma
ton still less unselfish and l regret
to say. far smarter and energetic. not
to say INSCRIPTIONS.
The advantage which it had hoped
would come to British trade from this
country's alliance with Japan have not
only failed to materialiZe, but it is
even evident to the most casual obser-
yer, that the time is not far distant
when Japan will practically close her
markets to British goods in order to
nurse her own baby industries in the
most approved American fashion.
British industrial machinery has been
bought. British industrial experts
have been induced to come to Japan:
but the machines have been imported
only to serve as models, the experts
only as teachers, and soon neither will
be needed. Then the end will have
come. Japan will prefer to fill her
own needs without any assistance
Politically the alliance is perhaps
even less profitable. Time and again
rumors are heard that Japanese
agents are secretly stirring up trouble
for Great Britain in India, sowing the
dragons teeth which in time may call
for harvest of blood. But before this
may happen, other and equally SER
ious events may force England to cut
loose from her eastern ally
be inseparable from Japanese char
acter in all relations. commercial as
we'll as political, Japan is now trying
to work up an anti-American feeling.
blaming the United States for the
growing enmity of China against her
| which is undeniably the result of her
own broken treaty engagements in
Manchuria and the unlawful annexa-
| ton of Corea.
BY the thousand secret Japanese
agents have for years been busy in
China, working up conspiracy against
the Chinese government and befog-
| ging the brains of the Chinese people
and the Japanese press is indignant
because China is beginning to show
signs of distrust and enmity against
nation whose secret hope is to make
the immensely great, but immensely
weak Chinese empire share the fat of
Corea, dismembering it little by little
and swallowing it piecemeal No sane
person in England believes that the
United States, officially or unoff1cially
has tried to influence Cinese senti-
ment against Japan, while, on the con-
trary, the feeling is growing here that
this country may even have to teach
Japan a few lessons in diplomacy,
even with the danger of being misun-
derstood.
| The crying need of municipal lodg-
| ing houses for homeless women in
London was strikingly shown the 9TH
er night when starving woman in
miserable rags applied at the Hamp-
stead Fever hospital and asked for a
bed. declaring she cared nothing for
the risk of fever If she could have
once more the sensation of sleeping in
bed under a roof, thing she had
| not done for months. Barely night
passes that women do not beg the po-