[247]. China, No. 1 (1899), pp. 127–129, No. 187, dated Peking, April 29. Regarding this précis, Sir Claude says: “It bears every sign of foreign authorship, and the original cannot have been drafted by a Chinese. I have no doubt that the document correctly represents the sense of the original agreement, for it fully corresponds with what I have been able to learn of the contents of the latter.” M. Cordier also relies on this précis in his Histoire des relations de la Chine avec les puissances occidentales, vol. iii. pp. 362–364.
[248]. Tokushu Jōyaku, pp. 244–245. This Chinese text naturally clears up some points which are obscure in the précis.
[249]. See China, No. 1 (1899), p. 188, No. 273. Also Cordier, Histoire, vol. iii. pp. 365–366. A Japanese version obtained from the Foreign Office at Tokio appears in Tokushu Jōyaku, pp. 246–247. The Special Agreement was supplemented by another Agreement concluded on April 25 (o. s.), 1899.
[250]. The boundary of the leased territory began with the northern side of A-tang Bay (Port Adams), on the west coast of the Liao-tung Peninsula, and passed through and included the A-tang Mountains, ending near Pi-tse-wo, and including the adjacent waters and isles. The northern limit of the neutral ground started at the mouth of the Kai-chow River, passed north of Yuyen-ch’êng and along the Ta-yang River, and ended at and included its mouth.
[251]. See the Czar’s telegraphic message to the Chinese Emperor, on March 15/27; and his Imperial orders of March 17/29 and July 30/August 11. China, No. 1 (1899), pp. 20–21, 1–2, and 262–263.
[252]. Meaning, presumably, east of Shan-hai-kwan.
[253]. See China, No. 1 (1900), pp. 292–293, 304–311, and 335. Also the Tsūshō Isan (Japanese Consular Reports), April 28, 1904, pp. 33–46.
[254]. See China, No. 1 (1900), pp. 262–263.
[255]. China, No. 1 (1900), pp. 308–311.
[256]. Conditions at Dalny since its foundation are minutely described by M. Suzuki, agent of the Japanese Foreign Office in the Tsūshō Isan for April 23 (pp. 39–49), 28 (pp. 32–46), May 3 (pp. 37–49), 8 (pp. 42–55), 12 (pp. 36–42), and 18 (pp. 33–37), 1904.