Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...journey through Germany until the question could be settled whether the Chinese Prince should perform the "Kowtow" before William II. at Potsdam. The solemnity and the sarcasm with which this point was debated by different sections of the German Press rendered the reception of the Mission an anti-climax. The German adventure in China was too prolonged to suit the temper of the German people. Count Waldersee returned home in June, 1901, but long before then it had been officially admitted that the nation was " tired of China " (China-miide). The practical achievement of the enterprise had been the signature of the Anglo-German Agreement (October, 1900), establishing anew the principles of the "open door" and of the territorial integrity of China, with the limitations illustrated by the Russian occupation of the Liao-Tung peninsula, the German seizure of Kiao-Chau, the Shantung Treaty, and the British occupation of Wei-hai-Wei. The real object of the Agreement, which came to be known as the "Yang-tse Agreement," was to check British commercial predominance in the Yang-tse Valley; and in order to impress the world with this policy the German Commander-in-Chief had not hesitated during the expedition to land German troops at Shanghai. A concurrent object of German endeavours was to lure Russia into enterprises of territorial expansion in the Far East, which would weaken her in Europe, and bring her into conflict with Japan and, perhaps, with Great Britain. _, _ In the Russo-Japanese War The Russo-r Japanese (1904-05) which ensued, Great Britain, in accordance with an undertaking given to Japan, "kept the ring" for the combatants, and the policy of the German Emperor was to keep on terms with both of them. This was illustrated by his curious...
