...necessary to safeguard and advance those interests, provided always that such measures are not contrary to the principle of equal opportunities for the commerce and industry of all nations. IV. — Great Britain having a special interest in all that concerns the security of the Indian...

...Consolidation and the maintenance of general peace in the regions of eastern Asia and India. B — The preservation of the common interests of all the...Chinese Empire and the principle of equal opportunities tor the commerce and industry of all nations in China. C — The maintenance of the territorial rights...

...First, the treaty between Great Britain and Japan insures " the independence and integrity of China and the principle of equal opportunities for the commerce and industry of all nations in China.'' It would be in the highest degree unpolitic on the part of the Japanese Government to violate those...

...territorial integrity of China in Manchuria, or to agree to any stipulation for the maintenance of the principle of equal opportunities for the commerce and industry of all nations there, and requested Japan to declare Manchuria and its littoral entirely outside of her sphere...

...concluded with England a treaty whose foremost aim was the "preservation of the common interests of all powers in China, by insuring the independence and...China." Again in June, 1907, Japan took the initiative to exchange with France a memorandum whose aim was the preservation of the territorial integrity of...

...main interest in China is shown by the language used in its preamble. One of its objects is said to be "the preservation of the common interests of all the...the commerce and industry of all nations in China." Why the two contracting powers alone have undertaken the task which, in its very nature, ought t(i...

...necessary to safeguard and advance those interests, provided always that such measures are not contrary to the principle of equal opportunities for the commerce and industry of all nations. ARTICLE IV. Great Britain having a special interest in all that concerns the security of the...

...preamble declared the Alliance to have for its object: "The preservation of the common interests of all Powers in China by insuring the independence and integrity...principle of equal opportunities for the commerce and industries of all nations in China." The third treaty of alliance, which was signed in 1911 and is...

...sovereignty even on its own soil by insuring the independence and integrity of the Chinese Empire and tru principle of equal opportunities for the commerce and industry of all nations in China." Article I states that, "It is agreed that wherever in the opinion of either Japan or Great Britain...

...in respect to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of China, and stipulated the maintenance of the principle of equal opportunities for the commerce and industry of all nations in China, and requested that Japan declare Manchuria and its littoral as being entirely outside of her sphere...