I is stated from Nanking that, aware of the acute crisis, threatening the very existence of China, caused by the allosed teachery of the reactionists at Hsian and Peking who are ready to even sell their country to Russia in order to spite the other Powers, the high provincial authorities of the Liangkiang provinces sent a telegram about a week ago to the Foreign Office at St. Petersburg, rexjesting Count Lamsdorff "to explain on their behalf to the Czar that the ratification of the agreement concerning Msnchuria would be against the wishes of more than nine-tanhs of the officials, literati, and common people of the Empire of China, Furthermore, as the Gsar is a friend and advocate of peace, it was sincerely and erne-tly hoped that his Majesty would interfere in the matter and order affairs to be settled on a broader and less selfish basis." No reply has bean vouchsafed by the Russian Foreizn Office, although the message was couched in very courteous term:
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