ABSTRACT
The peace which Japan compelled China to accept was a Pax japonica. The Japanese Government thereupon introduced several modifications in their own peace proposals, which on the 10th of April in their modified form they declared to be final. They were only permitted a single conference at which to discuss the Japanese terms, and the peace agreed upon was virtually an imposed peace. They were anxious to arrange the peace quickly so as to avoid the intervention of the Powers if that were possible. Japan's peace terms, in the opinion of the British Cabinet, did not justify their previous fears. But the Japanese were determined not to allow the Chinese to prolong the negotiations. Dr. Otto Franke, the German authority upon the Far East, has taken a different view of the negotiations which preceded the intervention of the three Powers than is recorded above.
