Foreign troops were withdrawn from Tien-tsin on the 15th of August, 1902, and the city delivered to the Chinese Viceroy. Many improvements in streets, bridges, and public grounds had been made by the provisional government which the Allies instituted in 1900. Shanghai was evacuated by the allied forces at the end of the year 1902. Some recurrence of Boxer movements and insurrections occurred in different parts of the Empire during 1902. Several missionaries and a number of native converts were murdered, chapels were burned, and other outrages committed; but in general there was a restoration of order in the country, and considerable building of railways and forwarding of other enterprises went on. CHINA: A. D. 1902. Russo-Chinese Treaty concerning Tibet. See (in this Volume) TIBET: A. D. 1902. CHINA: A. D. 1902 (January). Agreement respecting China between Great Britain and Japan. See (in this Volume) JAPAN: A. D. 1902. CHINA: A. D. 1902 (February). Wei-hai-wei found to be strategically worthless by the British Government. See (in this Volume) ENGLAND: A. D. 1902 (FEBRUARY). CHINA: A. D. 1902-1904. The British opening of Tibet by force. See TIBET: A. D. 1902. {94} CHINA: A. D. 1903 (MAY-OCTOBER). Treaty with the United States. Opening of two ports in Manchuria. Rights and privileges enlarged. "In the protocol of September 7, 1901, China had agreed to extend the scope of her commercial treaties with the powers. _See, (in this Volume) above, A. D. 1901-1908._