Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Annual Register: A Review of Public Events at Home and Abroad; For the Year 1898
France felt herself consequently constrained to follow suit by putting forward a request for a port in the South, as a counter poise to the English position at hong-kong. Pekin for the moment became the centre of political intrigue, and England was loudly taunted by foreign journalists with her loss of prestige in Asia, while the British Cabinet found little support at home from any section of the press. Under such conditions rumours were endless. One day the British ?eet was declared to have been despatched to the Gulf of Pechili, the next that Russia had forced China to accept her tutelage. It was asserted by others that Russia's hand had been forced by the action of Germany, and that she was only acting upon the invitation of Great Britain in seeking a warm-water port as a terminus to her great Asian railway system.
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