As this is written the news has come that China las refused to sign the so-called Manelurian treaty with Russia, and the treaty has been withdrawn by the latter country, thus apparently yielding entirely or ut least postponing the claims covered by that deeement. What will be the development even of the next few weeks it is, of course, impossible to foresee for the situation is still critical, and it may be that by the time this letter reaches you the interest in its topics will have been dwarfed by more recent and more important 5 The course of Japan, now aroused to the point of war, is, for instance, a factor that cannot now be measured. obvious, however, that Russia has received
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