[322]. For the Japanese amendments, see ibid., Nos. 60, 151, 178.
[323]. Russia openly declared in her Messager Officiel of March 24 (April 6), 1901, that the Russian views regarding the settlement of the trouble in North China, as distinguished from Manchuria, had “served the French Government as a basis for the elaboration” of the latter’s propositions.—China, No. 2 (1904), pp. 20–21.
[324]. November 5.—China, No. 5 (1901), No. 117.
[325]. November 28.—Ibid., Nos. 178 and 198.
[326]. China, No. 2 (1904), p. 21.
[327]. Ibid., p. 20.
[328]. Russia allowed the question of the indemnity in Manchuria to be dealt with at the general conferences at Peking together with the indemnity respecting North China. In the matter of the punishment of guilty local officials, from the discussion of which Russia abruptly withdrew herself, the representatives of the other Powers included Manchuria in their consideration.
[329]. China, No. 2 (1904), No. 5 (January 4, 1901). Sir Charles Scott, Ambassador at St. Petersburg, reported on January 5, that it appeared to be generally believed there that “some provisional agreement, such as that indicated, had been concluded by Russia with the local authorities in Manchuria, and that she might eventually acquire by treaty the right to finish building the railway line through Manchuria to Port Arthur, and to protect it herself, the rights of the Russo-Chinese Company being transferred to the Russian Government.”—Ibid., No. 4.
[330]. The London Times, January 3, 1901, p. 3. In this and other reports Dr. Morrison seems to have translated from Chinese texts.
[331]. The Russian Official Messenger of April 6, 1901, stated that “temporary agreements in writing (modus vivendi) respecting the reëstablishment of the local civil administration in the three Provinces of Manchuria were, before all else, concluded between the Russian military authorities and the Chinese tsian-tsiouns [Generals] of the three Provinces.”—China, No. 2 (1904), p. 22.