FRANKE, âTHE GREAT POWERS IN EASTERN ASIAâ
This article by Otto Franke, âThe Great Powers in Eastern Asiaâ, is included in the same volume.
A useful summary of the facts (partly with source references) about how China was robbed by Britain and France (Annam by France, Burma by Britain, Tibet by Britain, Siam by France and Britainâall former parts of China or areas dependent on her).
p.
442
: â...The Japanese ambassador, Count
Hayashi, reveals in his notes, the publication
of which, unfortunately, was stopped by the
Tokyo Government, that on the initiative of
Joseph Chamberlain, negotiations were con-
ducted in London in 1898 with Japan for
an Anglo-Japanese-German triple alliance as
a barrier to Russiaâs continued penetration
into Eastern Asia. This coincided with confi-
dential British overtures to Berlin on an
Anglo-German alliance.
N.B.
1898: nego-
tiations for
an Anglo-
German-
Japanese
alliance
against
Russia
They
did not
strike a
bargain!!
These were without result, if only because
Great Britain had nothing to offer or propose
to Germany other than the honour of taking
the field against Russia. Japan, however,
did not hesitate; she was ready to enter into
such an alliance with Germanyâ.... (442-43).
July 1910
(p. 456) treaty between
Russia and Japan: Japan is given a free hand
in Korea. [Some weeks after she annexes
Korea.]
âRussia in
Mongolia
(Russo-Chinese treaty
concluded in the spring of 1911).
N.B.
September 17, 1914
: Russia con-
cludes a treaty with âindependentâ Mongolia
(establishing factual Russian protectorate)
N.B.
1911: Anglo-Japanese treaty (replacing the old one)â Britain will remain neutral in the event of war between Japan and America (Japan
probably
given a âfree handâ against Germany).