[53] [M. Sergius de Witte.—Ed.]

[54] [Literally, “A man’s own shirt is nearest his own skin.”—Ed.]

[55] [August, 1900.—Ed.]

[56] [The German Field-Marshal commanding the Allied Forces of the Peking Relief Expedition.—Ed.]

[57] Which the occupation of Port Arthur had made of considerable military importance to us.

[58] [The Maritime Province.—Ed.]

[59] Ying-kou.

[60] [This ratio hardly seems correct.—Ed.]

[61] [The Royal Timber Company. For fuller details of this undertaking and Bezobrazoff’s connection with it, see Appendix I., p. 615.—Ed.]

[62] [The Russian Minister in China.—Ed.]