The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-05
THINKS WELL OF HIMSELF

1 And the professor continues: Japan 1 stands for loyalty and justice; Germany for loyalty and injustice; England for selfishness and disloyalty. It is be- cause of this selfishness and disloyalty | that England, while speaking of ulti-
 mate victory, is reporting daily ad- vance by an inch and retreats by an other inch. The British are a race of long sleeves (poor fighters). We can- not afford to keep company with such a country"
 Prof. Masutaro Niita, another mem Der of the staff of the Imperial univer- sity, contributes an article in which he declares that the development of Ja- pans national power and the increase of the navy may give a feeling Of great anxiety to England and her colonial possessions in the orient, espe- cially as to the fate of Australia. Ja- pans star indicates that she must de- velop her power on land and sea and if Japan should expand greatly, Eng land doubtless would not like it. The writer urges that the responsibility of Japan rising out of the alliance is greater than that of England and that at the present time England is using the treaty as club to best Japan. He thinks that the alliance has lost it's foundation both for Japan and for Eng land.
 So solves the problem of what effect the war will have upon the alliance, one must decide what the result of the war will be. He thinks that while Ger many is in a superior position at this time, she will doubtless be humiliated by the entente powers But Professor Niita figures that since the entente powers are losing their strength, they will naturally wish to conclude peace in due time, a peace which, he thinks, will be made on terms of restoring the l ,lo,. 1frnnc n much as possible. The professor is ap- prehensive as to the burden that may be placed upon Japan In the future on account of the alliances and he is fear full as to the safe outcome of Japan's policy in China, which is that of seek ing economic development. To secure a market in India is next in importance
 to securing market in China, in his
 opinion He realizes that some Indians
 may think of securing the independence
 of India, but is rather inclined to think
 that from the Japanese standpoint 1t
 is better that India remain under Brit
 ish rule.
 FRASER'S DEFENSE
 Repeated attacks on the alliance with
 Great Britain and expressions of ad-
 miration for the success of German
 arms caused an unpleasant impression
 among the British residents of the em- pire, an impression that has been
 voiced in the organs of the British com- munity and summarized by David Fra ser, the London Times correspondent
 in an article in a Tokio newspaper He
 makes the point that when country
 is hard pushed in war it is little
 painful for it's people to find themselves
 run down by those from whom they
 expect sympathy. He had been assured,
 he said, that the animadversions had
 been written by Irresponsible persons, and that the newspapers themselves were not reliable as an indication of public opinion. However, as the writ CTS included members of the House of Peers, university professors and other
 public men, he could not fail to give
 some importance to what had been written.
 Semi-official Japanese newspapers characterized the whole controversy as exceedingly regrettable. Said the Ja- pan Times: "The vaporings of the Jap anese newspapers will be forgotten in a week. The world is today fighting rotten organization which will crumble and go to pieces, to be reformed and
 remade into a real system which in
 its turn will make for the good of the individual, whether he be monarch or president, citizen or subject The Jap- |anese newspapers and writers who write
 against the Anglo-Japanese alliance to
 which Japan has been so splendidly
 loyal and which has been and is to be
 effective in protecting British subjects
 and their interests in the far east will
 tomorrow be as much ashamed, we hope, of their infantile or senile outings of
 today as David Fraser will regret the
 over-bombastic wordiness of his article
 under the unfortunate caption. Is Japan Superior?'