Note 245 — Chapter IV · PORT ARTHUR AND TALIEN-WAN

“The Japanese Government,” said Baron Nishi, Foreign Minister of Japan, confidentially, to Sir Ernest Satow, about March 20, “had been anxious that China should be able to maintain her position at Wei-hai-Wei, but if she found it impossible to do so, Japan would have no objection to its being held by a Power disposed to assist in maintaining the independence of China.”—China, No. 1 (1899), No. 35. Cf. also Nos. 49, 79, 81, 107, etc.