Note 323 — Chapter IX · A MODUS VIVENDI: THE ALEXIEFF-TSÊNG AGREEMENT
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Russia openly declared in her Messager Officiel of March 24 (April 6), 1901, that the Russian views regarding the settlement of the trouble in North China, as distinguished from Manchuria, had “served the French Government as a basis for the elaboration” of the latter’s propositions.—China, No. 2 (1904), pp. 20–21.