Note 417 — Chapter XIII · THE CONVENTION OF EVACUATION

Mr. Eitarō Tsurouka, who has personally visited several of the chiefs of the banditti, gives an extremely interesting account of their origin, their relations to the Chinese authorities and Russian officers, and the history of their affairs down to the end of 1903.—The Tō-A Dōbun-kwai Hōkoku, No. 53 (April, 1904), pp. 1–14. Cf. China, No. 2 (1904), No. 130, inclosure.