The matter of extraterritoriality has apparently been established by the settlement of the Guan Bank case, which dragged wearily through many stages before arriving at a definite resalt, The only other point in Russia's first note that shows a marked diversity of opinion, is the mat shall be applied establishment of the Rassian Consulates.
To this respect the Chinese adhere firmly to certain provisions of the treaty, hich they consider do not leave room for avy doubt that da applied as soon as C established.
Tt must not be forgotten, however, that there are many other questions The matters referred to in Rassia's probably, the was conveyed some months og negotiations concerning several had already reached an acate stage, Se-exchanged, lly as wadi th altioatam as the ove that was dratnatically proclaimed in St. Pei: borg. tctaal denunciation of the Treaty 1881 and, of course, the preterit situation has to some extent entered upon the stage of Treaty revision, I do no mean to infer that all doeger of a crisis is past, for there is every reason to believe that Rassia is as determined now to force an issue satisfactory to herself as she was was when she handed Chi the so-called ultimatum; and it would not be at all surprising if a frontier demonstration were made as soon snow ceases to retard the movements of troops in those frost-bitten regions. I irish to emphasize particularly, however, that the Rassian Note contained references only to matters contained la the provisions of the Treaty of 1881, bile the Mongolian boundary question is probably of greater importance than the interpretation of the somewhat ambiguous treaty.
THE MANCHURIAN BOUNDARY, There remain, fla, the settlement tariffs along the tals trenton ication of the Harbin Agree-cent of 1909, and, as well as many minor questions, the frontier plague pre-cantions of which the proposed police flotilla on the Amur is one of the most important steps. As I pointed out in 1 previous letter, the Mongolian bouse dary will call for early records of which the Bonn Treaty of 1727 is important, The Russians claim acoord-
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