Peking, Jan. 31.
Foreign official despatches from Dairen indicate that some progress is at last being made by the Russo-Japanese conference there. After insisting on the withdrawal of Japanese troops from Siberia as a preliminary to trade negotiations, the Chita delegates yielded this point, and the subsequent discussions are said to howe resulted in a draft trade agreement which has been submitted to the Chita Government for approval of some of its points before signature by the delegates at Dairen. The conference has now proceeded to discussion of the Siberian fisheries and the Nikolaievsk question.
It is understood that the Chita delegates are now expected to insist on a Satisfactory settlement of these matters before they sign the trade agreement, while the Japanese gre anxious that this latter should become operative as soon as possible. A desire to have the whole matter discussed. by the. Washington Conference is attributed to the Chita Government by some of the parties concerned.—Reuter.
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