[209]. China, No. 1 (1898), Nos. 51, 57.
[210]. China, No. 1 (1898), No. 59.
[211]. Ibid., Nos. 72, 76, 123, etc.
[212]. The most-favored-nation clause is referred to, which—sometimes in general and sometimes in specific terms, and sometimes reciprocal and conditional, but nearly always unilateral and unconditional—is inserted in the treaty of China with each Power. See Mayers, op. cit.
[213]. A dispute arose later between the Russian and British Governments on this word “any” (tout). The latter interpreted it to mean any port secured by Russia in China, while the former claimed that the Czar’s Government had never promised to open Port Arthur to foreign trade.—March 13, 1898; China, No. 1 (1898), pp. 47–48, No. 114.
[214]. Ibid., No. 76.
[215]. China, No. 1 (1898), No. 83.
[217]. Compare the Russian reply to Secretary Hay’s note of September, 1899, pp. 135–138, below.
[218]. On January 17.—China, No. 1 (1898), No. 56. Cf. No. 62.