ABSTRACT
Russia declined to act upon the British suggestion, and again invited the latter's adherence to the proposed plan of intervention. They were not, however, opposed to the object of the intervention. The French and German Governments were anxious to join with Russia in an intervention because of the effect it would have upon their respective relations with her in Europe. The demarche of the Dreibund was a defeat for Japan's first attempt at Realpolitik. Germany consented to a French initiative; however, preferred a general simultaneous demarche of the three Powers on the Pescadores question and a general undertaking concerning it as best calculated to achieve the end of the Dreibund. Britain apparently still desired to assure herself that no clause of the treaty provided for a China-Japanese Alliance. China refused at first to agree to the ratification until all the negotiations were completed. They determined the conditions which China and Japan accepted.
