Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1898 — A SECRET PACT EXISTS. [ARTICLE]

A SECRET PACT EXISTS.

Russia’s Occupation of Port Arthur Is Explained. It is supposed that Great Britain’s withdrawal from Port Arthur and her ceasing to exert pressure for the opening of the port of Ta-Lien-Wan, which actions are regarded as incredible and suicidal to British interests and prestige, were owing to her disbelief in the existence of a secret treaty between Russia and China. The Chinese Government, however, quotes tills treaty as the reason for Russia’s presence at Port Arthur, and Russian dispatches to the tsung-li-yamen allege that the occupation of Port Arthur is in accordance with the treaty.