Tokiv, Sept. 25.
A Changchun telegram of to day's date says:—Last night, " telegraphic instruc tions reached the Japanese delegates from the Tokio Government, and it has been decided that the negotiations will be re-opened to day at 3 p.m. Though the contents of the instructions are kept secret, it is learnt on good authority that Japan is still firmly determined not to change her original policy towards the Saghalien question. It ig therefore very likely that the conference will be brought to a rupture, if Russia persists in her attitude. It is rumoured in this connexion that the Russian deiegates, as a compromise regarding the above question, have a mind to form a commission to deliberate upon the draft agreement and at
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