Note 294 — Chapter VII · NORTH CHINA AND MANCHURIA

Cf. China, No. 1 (1901), Nos. 267, 300, 314, 315.

Also see the most interesting Russian document, quoted in China, No. 2 (1904), p. 20. One of its passages reads as follows: “It must not be forgotten that an attack on the ancient traditions of the Chinese and on the prestige of their Government might be attended by the most disastrous consequences; all the more so that the international troops cannot occupy indefinitely the capital of a country of 400,000,000 inhabitants, whose right to live at home as they please can hardly be questioned.”