'A Northen dispatch states that General Ma Yii-kun, commanding the Chinese troops guarding the region outside Shanhai-Kuan to the western banks of the Liao river, recently reported to the Waiwupu that of late, since their reverses at the hands of the Japanese, the Russian troops stationed in the vicinity' of the Chinese camps on the Liao have gradually changed their demeanour towards the Chinese, and seem to show a more friendly disposition leading to the supposition that they (the Russians) think it better not to seek a quarrel with the Chinese, at least, just yet.
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