Note 317 — Chapter VIII · THE ANGLO-GERMAN AGREEMENT

At the Reichstag on March 15, 1901.—The London Times, August 6, 1901, p. 7. He is also said to have declared to the Russian Representative at Berlin that Manchuria was outside of the sphere of German commercial rights, and consequently had no relation with the Anglo-German Agreement. It was reported even that Manchuria was originally mentioned specifically in the British draft of the Agreement, but the word was struck out at the request of Germany, and the more abstract phrase, “spheres of influence,” was used therefor.—Tokushu Jōyaku, pp. 388–389.