This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917. Excerpt: ... INDEX Aigun, 104 Alameda. The, 258, 259 Alaska, 251, 253; sale to America, 27,32 Alexander, 280 Alexeieff, Admiral, 29 Amano, Professor, 38 America, see United States America. The, 252, 253, 261 American neutralization proposal, 103, 112-121, 128, 130-131, 143, 164, 170, 174-175, 179, 180-184, 186, 200, 207, 240, 241, 289 American-Russian Company on Siberian coast, 148 American Steam Navigation Com-pany, 255, 257 Amoy, 261 Amur Railway, 151, 152, 153, 162 Amur River, 52, 105, 147, 151, 160, 178 Anglo-Japanese alliance, 94, 146, 149, 183, 189, 203, 325 Aoki, Viscount (Japanese Ambassa-dor), 53; quoted, 114, 230; recalled, 174 Archimandrite Mission (Peking), 173 Ariel, The, 254 Article VI (Russian-Chinese con-tract, 1896), 48, 154-155, 157, 158, 159, 160, 162, 163, 169, 176, 177, 178, 185, 208, 241; pro-visions of, 176; quoted, 48 Asahi Shimbun, The (Osaka), 273; quoted, 270-272, 349 Asia, 7, 8, 9,18, 27,136, 227, 237, 265 Asiatic question, 53, 64, 73, 148 Aspinwall, William H., 251, 264 Associated Press, at Peking, 204; at Portsmouth, 29, 30-35, 37; in London, 19; in Tokio, 204 Atlantic, The, 4, 5, 6, 20, 57, 197, 203, 265, 310; conditions in, 318, 819, 320, 342, 343 Australia, The, 257 Austria, 14, 208, 318; army in Chihli, 10, 13 A. H. Badger, The, 256 nailloud, General, 11, 12 Balclutha, The, 255 Balkans, The, 90 Baltic, The, 226, 234 Baring Brothers, London, 25-26 Barrier Forts, 285 Belgium, 80, 177. 228, 318 Belloc, Hilaire, 19 Bering Strait, 147 Berlin, 18, 71, 78, 79, 119, 181 Bethmann-Hollweg, Doctor Von (German Chancellor), 66 Bismarck, 145 Bland, J. O. P., 119 Board of Revenue Bank (China), 124; collapse of, 127 Bonin Islands, 275, 277 Boston Steamship Company, 259 Bourse Gazette, The (St. Petersburg), 323 Boxer indemnity, 112, 223; remis-sion of...