Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-17
RUSSIA SEEklNG' <. <: ]. . TREATY WITH LAPS
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 Alliance Said to Be Neces- sary for Success of Jap, {
 anese Policy. 7
INTERE.:S1 ED
Proposed Arrangement Will Greatly Strengthen Nippon Should Trouble Develop With United States
 in Future Years.

Tckio, Sept 16-Sections of the Tokio press are calling upon the new ministry to go forward with the tWln tasks of increasing Japan's naval strength and concluding an offensive
 and defensive alliance with Russla'
 This question, so momeltous ilol
 the future of shc Pacific and the or1-
 ent, appears tc have entered a new
 ph4se since the change ot ministry. An extremely vigorous campalgn IS being carried on in it's favor by the Russian press and copious eXtfacts from the Petrograd editorials are cabled to Japan and raprcduced here. At times they are circulated by the for5ign office, and eNperlenc7i oo- servers have found that this IS a sign that Japanese authorities desire tl, influence public opinion on foreign questions in a particular direction. The arguments winch are in clrcu- lation from Russia have taken d much boIdr and more open tone Of late, anu they hluntly state that q Russo-Japanese alliance is necessary ii Japan is 10 carry through her policy in China and if she is to re sist the antiJapanesa policy winch, Is assumed to govern the Unlted states administrator. =
 Barring in mind the action of the United States in notifying9 Ja ian that changes in the status Of. Gs1na iW99cll |fconflicted with the TRoot-I akahIlfa .a greament could not be recognized, |the Russians argue in the Tokio D. pers thaE psfly bSsan:. al!fance Witt
 Russia can Japan nope 50 avoid treaty, Provision fter the. wal and reta1n Ter. |si ecent gains ih,esChshesz ttFra oTy F They "Eeylsion' is clearly expected [1o cofie from tlle@* United ssEates in conjunction with Europe. The third power against whom the alliance IS to be directed is specified as China, and one of the articles adds: "Mora ever, Japan desires to guarantee the safety of her r9ar in the hvans Of a the possession of the. Pacific"
 Another plausible line of thought suggeste1 is that cid conservative Japan with it's policy of external eX- pansjon can only find in a Russian alliance means to attain her ends. Russia secures her a free. hand in China, and having secured herself from the direction of Asia she pro- poses to concentrate all her forces on the struggle. with the United States and cn the consolidation of her posi- | ton in China
 It must bs, remembered that these
 arguments emanata from Russia and
 have not openly been adopted by any
 party in Japan. The facts of the question are that Russia desires JaDa-
 nese aid in the war. Japan is most
 relucj ant to enter on anyaayentures
 outside of the Ori:nt and has already
 declined French overtures to send an
 eXpedition2ry force to tn front
 But the Ii; gotiations with Russia
 appear t0' have been reopeDed and it
 is clear therefore that the subject is not closed. The alliance talk has
 aroused great disQuiet in China. To- litiCal observers in the Uli,ed Stat
 need not be remind d that a Russo-
 Japanese alliance would be very
 different instrument from the pres2nt
 Anglo-Iapan; SC alliance which Ut the last time of renewal was specifically
 draft ed so as to eXcluda the Tnitcd
 States from it's operations,