Note 247 — Chapter IV · PORT ARTHUR AND TALIEN-WAN
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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.