A Reuter dispatch reached here to-day reports that the "Standard" alleged that the Berlin Government had received official assurances from Tokio and St. Petersburg to the effect that the Czar and Count Lamsdorff had approved of the drafts of the Russo-Japanese agreement doing away with all existing differences. But the credulity of well-informed circles here abut the above news is overtaxed. If it imply those overtures preferred by Japan, it is no doubt totally unfounded. Some Tokio papers have a second telegram alleging that M. Pavloff, Russian Representative in Corea, will be recalled by his Government, but it has not, been so far confirmed. A pure and simple canard to the effect that Macquis Ito, G. C. B., will be dispatched toSt. Petersburg as a special Ambassador in connection with the Russo-Japanese imbroglio having curiously gain ed ground in the stock market here, share quotations went up this evening to some extent.
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