The sensational recall of Mr. O. R. Crane, American Minister-designate to Peking, at the moment when he was actually setting foot on the vessel that was to take him to the Far East, is still a matter of some ulation to curious minds; and the "Journal the American Asiatic Association" very naturally gives most prominence in its Intest number (December, 1909) to the official communication of the Washi State Department which appears finally to dispose of the matter. This communication (the date is not given) takes the form of s detailed inquiry into the purpose of the Chino-Japanese Conventions, the one referring to Chientao, the other to railways and mines in Manchuria, which were signed in Peking on September 4, 1909. The impression had got abroad that this agreement created © mining monopoly for Chinese and Japanese subjects, and therefore, that it was antagonistic to the principle of the open door. "Inquiry has been made of the two signatory
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