[140]. See our Introduction.
[141]. Actual account on October 31, 1903.
[142]. Settled accounts.
[143]. Estimates in the budget. All based on the Fourth Annual.
[144]. See Henri Cordier, Histoire des relations de la Chine avec les puissances occidentales, 1860–1902 (3 vols.), vol. iii (Paris, 1902), pp. 305–306. The loan contract, dated June 24, 1895, appears in Tokushu Jōyaku, pp. 660–667.
[145]. Tokushu Jōyaku, pp. 667–668.
[146]. Cf. Art. 15 of the contract.
[147]. The other half, £16,000,000, was supplied by some British and German subjects by the contract of March 11, 1896, at 5% interest, and repayable in thirty-six years. Another £16,000,000 loan was later supplied by the same parties.—Tokushu Jōyaku, pp. 668–673.
[148]. 5,000,000 taels were, however, as will be seen below, used for another purpose.
[149]. The contract dated August 25, 1896.—Tokushu Jōyaku, pp. 640–641.