"The Situation in the Far East."

Osborne Howes, Esq., Honorary Japanese Consul in Boston, spoke in the Living Room of the Union last night under the joint auspices of the Union and the Harvard Japan Club, on "The Present Situation in the Far East."

The speaker was introduced by B. S. Kimura, Gr. Div., president of the Japan Club, who gave a brief history of his country's foreign policy. Mr. Howes showed that the acquisition of Manchuria by Russia is merely one step in a general eastern advance of the Cossacks, and that the war is therefore a defensive one on the part of Japan. As such, he said, it should arouse the interest of liberty-loving people.