Note 331 — Chapter IX · A MODUS VIVENDI: THE ALEXIEFF-TSÊNG AGREEMENT
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The Russian Official Messenger of April 6, 1901, stated that “temporary agreements in writing (modus vivendi) respecting the reëstablishment of the local civil administration in the three Provinces of Manchuria were, before all else, concluded between the Russian military authorities and the Chinese tsian-tsiouns [Generals] of the three Provinces.”—China, No. 2 (1904), p. 22.