New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-10
Government Programme
Is Adopted by Diet
Without Dissent.
ANNOUNCED BRITISH
ALLIANCE STANDS
Unaffected by Triple Entente
Compact Not to Make
Peace Singly.

iOhlO' Depl' - Hc JhPaHtot NV"
to-day adopted the war programme Of
the japanese government. 1t provides
for war appropriation of 100000
yen tabout $26,5OO,OOO). The vote was
unanimous.
The government announced to-day
that Great Britain had informed
France and Russia that the recent con-
vention signed by the powers of the
Triple Entente, in which it was agreed
that none of the three would accept
terms Of peace without the previous
consent Of the other two, must not be
regarded as modifying the British ALI
ancc with Japan, with which Great
Britain acts in common in the conduct
Of war or in the making Of peace.
Picking, Sept. "a telegram from
German sources says that the Japanese
landed 10000 men at Lungkow, a town
on the northern coast of the Shan
tung Peninsula, and that they are now
advancing toward ChaOyuan, town
about eighty miles north of Kiao-Chau.
Censorship Complete.
The japanese censorship is complete.
Even Chinese officials in the territory
occupied by the Japanese are prevented
from communicating freely with
Picking, while Geographic communica-
tiou with Tsing-Tau has been inter
rupted for week.
Mail adyices from Tsing-Tau dated
September say that the report that
the Germans are compelling Chinese
laborers to assist in the construction
Of defences is untrue. The CHEESE de-
serted Tsing-Tau, expecting a lombard
ment of the city by the Japanese, but
finding a livelihood outside the district
of KiaO- hau impossible, returned in
great number.
Other Chinese reports say that Jap
auesc dressed as Chinese are spying IN
the vicinity of Tsing-Tau, while Ger
man scouts are watching the Japanese
approach. At the request of Japan, the
Chinese government, being anxious to
preclude the possibility of a conflict,
withdrew the Chinese soldiers from the
japanese military area.
The Russian Minister at Peking has
received the consent Of the Chinese
government to the construction by Rus
sian capitalists of railroad from the
island Of Sakhalin, along the right bank
OF the Amur River, to point opposite
Observation-Disclosures and thence TO Har-
bin, with "A branch to TSitgihar.
Toxic, Aug. lS.-Japan's decision TO
send an ultimatum to Germany, and
thus extend the theatre Of war from
Europe to Asia, was reached only after
some division among the statesmen OF
the empire. II was the genre or elder
statesmen who at first opposed Japan's
participation. Extensive negotiations
we're necessary also between Great
Britain and Japan before an accord
was reached as to the sphere Of Japan's
action and the exact programme Japan
was to carry out in the fulhImcnt OF
her alliance with England.
Modified at Once.
As soon a, war was declared between
+ England and Germany Japan moblllzed
her fleet in readiness for action, and
very soon after that several army
CORPS we're ordered in readiness for
uuicg mobilization. The third Japanese
squadron, at Shanghai. was reinforced
by several warShips from the home
fleet. and patrol was established IN
the historic Straits Of TsushimL.
A hving squadron OF seven cruisers
was organized at Tokosuka, with
Prince Fushimi in command, while the
battleship squadron at Sasebo was m
creased TO eight big-gun ships, in
GLIDING the dreadnought Kongo and the
new dreadnought Hiyel.
: Meantime Japan began to feel heaV-
/ ily the "esults of the war Shipping
was tied up, and as many as a hundred
steamers of different nationalities were
unable to leave port. Foreign COM
mercial exchange practically ceased be
tween Japan and China and Japan an
Europe. bringing business to stand
still. while business with America was
greatly affected.
Al! this time active negotiations
wer. going on between Japan and Eng
7 land. Suddenly, on August II, when
everybody in Japan had been prepared
for a communication from the govern
i ment regarding her participation in