The Coming Power; A Contemporary History of the Far East, 1898-1905
by Michael John Fitzgerald McCarthy (9781150602511)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1905 Original Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton Subjects: Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 East Asia Eastern question (Far East) Japan Russo-Japanese war, 1904-1905 East (Far East) Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II German seizure of Kiao-Chau -- Anglo-Chinese agreement -- Dissatisfaction in England -- Sir M. Hicks Beach on " the open door" -- Port Arthur and Dalny leased to Russia -- Russian aggression in Manchuria. IT was under such circumstances that Japan was forced to evacuate the Liao-Tong peninsula after the war of 1894-5. But she continued to occupy Wei- hai-wei, until May, 1898, when the final instalment of the war indemnity was paid in London by a single Bank of England cheque for 1 1,008,857, handed by the Chinese envoy to the representative of Japan -- a striking testimony to Eastern confidence in the commercial integrity of Great Britain. During the six months preceding that pleasant incident, that is to say, from November, 1897, to May, 1898, many transactions, as high-handed as they were dishonourable, had been taking place in China. The German Emperor was the first to show that a living German dog was better than a dead Chinese lion. Two German missionaries had been murdered in Shantung province in November, 1897, and apparently without consulting the other Powers -- assuredly without consulting Great Britain -- the German admiral ordered the Chinese commander at Kiao-Chau to evacuate that important port within forty-eight hours, landed six hundred men from his battleships, and took possession of the Chinese barracks. A demand for reparation for the murder of the missionaries was then presented to the Chinese Fo...

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