. The secret memoirs of Count Tadasu Hayashi, G. C. V. h the admitting that Ito went to Russia onhis own initiative, he could not have enteredinto formal negotiations with Russia with-out the Premiers approval. This hypothesismust, therefore, be excluded from considera-tion. It is clear that the Premier, on the onehand, decided to negotiate an alliance withGreat Britain, and, on the other, dispatchedMarquis Ito to Russia to negotiate an agree-ment, and in so doing dangerously risked thecredit of the State. With regard to the statement in the HochiShimhun that after Itos return
. The secret memoirs of Count Tadasu Hayashi, G. C. V. h the admitting that Ito went to Russia onhis own initiative, he could not have enteredinto formal negotiations with Russia with-out the Premiers approval. This hypothesismust, therefore, be excluded from considera-tion. It is clear that the Premier, on the onehand, decided to negotiate an alliance withGreat Britain, and, on the other, dispatchedMarquis Ito to Russia to negotiate an agree-ment, and in so doing dangerously risked thecredit of the State. With regard to the statement in the HochiShimhun that after Itos return from Europehe still held out stoutly for a Russian Alliance,it is to be noted that the alliance was publishedon February 12, 1902. According to a reportwhich I subsequently received from Mr. Hisa-mizu, Consul at Singapore, Marquis Itoarrived at that port on that date. The Consulimmediately went aboard to pay his respectsto the Marquis and took with him a clippingfrom the local paper reproducing the text ofthe alliance, and congratulated the Marquis. Nadar, Paris THE LATE PRINCE HIROBUMI ITO JAPANS GREATEST STATESMAN, ASSASSINATED BY A KOREAN 26TM, 1909 Later Notes on the Alliance 211 on its conclusion. Anyhow, the alliance wassigned long before the Marquis arrived backin Japan from Europe. Even if on his returnhe had been ignorant that the alliance hadbeen actually signed I cannot believe that hewould have still pressed for an alliance withRussia. The Reminiscence which I have quotedfrom the Hochi Shimbun contains a good dealmore about the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, butmuch of what is related is contradictory tothe facts and entirely at variance with theofficial documents. Such statements as thatattributed to Marquis Katsura are confusedand wrong. As the Premier was not the sortof man to circulate baseless utterances throughthe Press, it may be that the printers havemade many mistakes. ^ ^The only portion of the Reminiscence from the HochiShimbun, quoted ab
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