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their displeasure is directed. It was an ingenious speech, a speech of subtle distinct tion designed to show that Great Britain had come best out of the negotiations—that Russia's retreat from Corea was a greater climb down than anything which had been made by England, and that Russia's position in the Far East was incomparably weaker than it was seven or eight months ago, while this country's position was stronger commercially and strategically. But although the speech was on the whole favourably received by Mr. Balfour's supporters there was occasional ominous silence where there should have been cheers. The Government had, declined to give time for the continuance of the debate unless a vote of censure were proposed, and this having been done the debate has been adjourned sine die in the midst of an oration by Sir Ellis Ashmead Bartlett, and has not yet been resumed,
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