Footnote 125: For the text of this treaty, see the _Treaties and Conventions between the Empire of Japan and Other Powers_, compiled by the Foreign Office, Tokio, 1899, pp. 377 ff.; Mayers, pp. 181–184; U. S. 54th Congress, 1st Session, _House Documents_, vol. i. pp. 200–203; etc. Footnote 126: _Tokushu Jōyaku_, pp. 43–45, 80. Footnote 127: The London _Times_, April 22, 1895, p. 5. Footnote 128: The London _Times_, April 22, 1895, p. 5. Footnote 129: _Tokushu Jōyaku_, pp. 81–82. Footnote 130: The German note, which was accompanied by a Romanized translation into Japanese, is said to have contained a statement to the effect that Japan was weak, Germany was powerful, and Japan would surely be defeated in case she should go to war with Germany. This peculiar sentence was, at the protest of the Japanese Foreign Office, expunged from the note.—_Tokushu Jōyaku_, p. 86 Footnote 131: To the last moment Russia, it is said, persisted in advising China to postpone the ratification. Footnote 132: The London _Times_, May 3, 1895, p. 5; M. de Blowitz’s correspondence, dated Paris, May 2. Footnote 133: The declaration made in November, 1903, by a person intimately associated with Marquis Itō, who was the Premier during the war.—The _Kokumin Shimbun_, November 10, 1903. Footnote 134: Germany is said to have undertaken, when her note was presented, to guarantee a monetary consideration from China. By the treaty between Japan and China, concluded on September 22, the sum was fixed at 30,000,000 _taels_. Footnote 135: _Tokushu Jōyaku_, pp. 81–87. As has been said, the diplomatic correspondence of the day has not been published by any of the Powers concerned. The information briefly given in the text has been culled from, besides _Tokushu Jōyaku_, the leading articles of the _Tokio Nichi-Nichi Shimbun_ (Tokio Daily News), a semi-official organ of the Japanese Government at the time, as quoted in the _Nisshin Sen Shi_ (history of the Japan-China war, Tokio, 1894–5, 8 vols.), vol. viii. pp. 141–171. These articles give a minute and careful account of the diplomacy of the day, and may largely be relied upon as authentic. Footnote 136: It will be remembered that Japan had in 1894 revised her treaties with the Powers, and thereby freed herself from the yoke of consular jurisdiction and placed the foreign residents within her domain under the jurisdiction of her own law, and also largely restored her tariff autonomy. Footnote 137: The position which the military and naval expenditures have occupied in the finance of the Japanese Government since the war of 1894–5 may be gathered from the following table (unit, 1000 _yen_; _yen_ = 49.8 cents):—