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Excerpt from China Vs Japan Liaotung Peninsula which led to the F ranco-ger man-russian intervention amply proved the asser tion. The Portsmouth Peace treaty was more of a peace settlement of a makeshift sort and in the nature of a transference of property than as a solu tion of the Far Eastern question which the War had failed to solve. The fact that Japan stepped right into the Russian boot in South Manchuria by suc ceeding to all the rights, privileges, concessions, and properties granted to Russia by China sewed to strengthen this belief. The anglo-japanese alli anecs, the franco-japanese Agreement, the Russo Japanese agreements, and the open door agreements. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.