Peking, Sept. 19.
The Japanese press, in reporting upon gr commenting upon Japan's a in the Consortium, has made a great dea] of capital out of the secrecy which has hitherto surrounded the final agreement between Mr. Lamont and the Japanese bankers. Mr. Lamont announced that before entering into the Consortium agreement the Japanes had abandoned their claim fcr the reservation of Man-chuns, and Eastern Inner Mongoli while the Japanese press has sisted that there was a secret understanding which virtually accoded. to Japan's reservations. _This claim has been kept consistently before the Chinese and Anpanese vubhe and the Chinese press has, in many—instances echoed Japanese attitude, as though believing in some secret annex to the agreement which did give Japan exclusive industrial and railway tights in Manchuria and Mongolia,
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