A Close Alliance with Japan most Desirable.
22.—It is much to be desired that this feeling may receive all possible encouragement. No question is likely to disturb the harmony of Anglo-Japanese relations, and no alliance is calculated to be of greater mutual advantage to both nations.
"BRITISH INTERESTS IN CHINA."
REPORT TO CENTRAL SHEFFIELD.
Having regard to the apprehension caused by the danger in which foreigners in China have been lately placed, many of my constituents desire to know the result of recent inquiries at Peking and elsewhere, into the condition of affairs as affecting British Trade and Industrial Employment. I have the honour, therefore, to submit the following report.
The details have been collected partly from official sources and partly from the views of authorities in various spheres who have favoured me with opinions founded for the most part upon long personal experience.
Extent of Chinese Empire.
1.—It may be desirable, in the first place, to call to mind the area and population of the Chinese Dominions, and the system of government.