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The papers deprecate Russia's proposal to withdraw from Peking. Phe moral effect, they say, would be deplorable. {Phe "Times" says that the withdrawal will be inevitably read as the restoration of the old urges that we should m occupation, even if some of the Powers withdraw.
The German Press is amazed and j believes that there is no chance that {Germany will acquiesce in the proposal.
The Russian notification to the United States disavowed any design of territorial acquisition. Her action in Manchuria.is solely defensive, and her troops at Newchwang will withdraw as soon as order is restored, unless the action of other Powers be It is officially stated that Russia has ordered her Minister and expedi-{tion to withdraw to Tientsin. She aims at maintaining the integrity of China, and restoring the legal Central Government.
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