[150]. According to a Peking correspondent to the Kokumin (May 30, 1904), the Chinese Government had been paying the stipulated 4% interest for this sum to the French creditors, but the Bank had never repaid the interest to China. Moreover, the Niu-chwang branch of the Bank, since the Russians occupied the port in August, 1900, had been receiving the returns of the Chinese maritime customs there, which finally amounted to about 5,000,000 taels. Neither the principal nor the interest of this sum had been paid by the Bank to the Chinese Government.
[151]. Tokushu Jōyaku, pp. 642–660.
[152]. Tokushu Jōyaku, p. 231.
[153]. The Japanese text appears in ibid., pp. 231–234.
[154]. Tokushu Jōyaku, pp. 234–236. A French translation is found in Cordier, Histoire, vol. iii. pp. 343–347.
[155]. The British Parliamentary Papers, China, No. 1 (1898), Dispatch No. 14, pp. 5–6. Cf. China, No. 2 (1899), No. 2, in which M. Pavloff claims to have secured in December, 1897, a repetition of this pledge.
[156]. See China, No. 2 (1904), Nos. 28–29, modified Article 12. Sir Ernest Satow, however, denied that any such agreement existed. See China, No. 2 (1904), No. 30, March 19, 1901.
[157]. See China, No. 1 (1898), Nos. 13, 38, 26, 43, 111, 113, 115, 117, 121; China, No. 2 (1899), Nos. 2, 9, 10, 52, 65; China, No. 1 (1900), No. 321.
[158]. China, No. 2 (1899), No. 138.
[159]. China, No. 1 (1900), No. 148.