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We deal with Count Okuma's speech in another column, but

may note that since our article was written the Times correspondent at Tokio telegraphs that the newspaper reports of the speech are erroneous, contradictions of it having been published in Japan three weeks ago. Count Okuma, who has always been a strong supporter of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, denies that he used any language which could be inter- preted in a political sense. His speech was merely intended to point out the exceptional position won by Japan in the eyes of Indians, which her merchants were bound to utilise. In previous speeches, delivered in the presence of Indian students, he had emphatically stated that India is happiest under British rule, and that any attempt to escape from it would assuredly lead to disaster.

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