The Archive · 1901

An Alleged Secret Convention

A Heian dispatch reports that the Empress Dowager is feeling much alarm at the receipt of a recent telegram from Yang Ju, Chinese Minister at St. Petersburg, stating that Great Britain and Russia have' recently entered into a secret convention by which the former Power binds itself not to interfere in anything that may hereafter happen north of the Great Wall, while Russin does the same in, regard to any action south of the Great Wall.

19th August,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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