During the week there have been many rumours of "
hitches " in the negotiations with Russia, but on Friday the Daily Mail published a statement of a reassuring nature, declaring that they "understand the only outstanding point" to be the precise signification of certain expressions in the French original of the Agreement. We trust and believe this is the case, but may note in this context the Daily Mail telegram from Paris in Friday's issue which states that Germany has been playing the part of mischief-maker, and doing her best to minimise the services which France recently rendered Russia by her friendly intervention, and "to prove to the Czar's Government that France was the accomplice of England in humiliating Russia." We cannot, of course, tell whether this news is authentic, but it is certainly safe to say that it is by no means incredible, for the policy suggested 1
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