[488] See the evidence adduced by V. Chirol, The Far Eastern Question, chap, xi., as to the ultimately aggressive designs of China on Japan.
[489] Manchu and Muscovite, by B.L. Putnam Weale, p. 60.
[490] Asakawa, op. cit. p, 76.
[491] Asakawa, pp. 85-87.
[492] Asakawa, chap. ii.
[493] Asakawa, p. 110, note.
[494] Asakawa, chap. vii.; and for the Korean Question, chaps. xvi, xvii