Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1898 — A SECRET PACT EXISTS. [ARTICLE]

A SECRET PACT EXISTS.

Russia's Occupation of Port Arthur Is Kxpl«D<£a. It is supposed that GraaPßritain’s withdrawn! from Port Arthur and her ceasing to exert pressure for the opening of the port of Ta-Lien-Wnn, 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 this treaty ns the reason for Russia’s presence at Port Arthur, and Russian dispatches to the tsung-11-yamen allege that the occupation of Port Arthur is in accordance with the treaty.