Note 363 — Chapter X · A “STARTING-POINT”—THE LAMSDORFF-YANG-YU CONVENTION

Dr. Morrison wrote from Peking on March 3: “To render China more willing speedily to sign the convention, M. de Giers has informed Li Hung-chang that Russia will not participate in the demand for the execution of ten provincial officials guilty of inhuman murders of white men, whose death justice demands. Thus the murdered English men, women, and children may be described as England’s contribution toward securing to Russia the advantages derived from this convention.”—The London Times, March 4, 1901, p. 5.