The triple intervention and the termination of the First Sino-Japanese War S . C . M . PAINE

A naval coalition of Russia, Germany, and France altered the outcome of the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-5) without so much as firing a shot. The socalled Triple Intervention deprived Japan of its most coveted territorial gain, promised under the Treaty of Shimonoseki, by forcing Japan to return to China the strategically located Liaodong Peninsula in Manchuria.