AMERICA AND RUSSIA.
A DIFFICULTY SETTLED. . UniUd Press Association—By EUctrio Telegraph— Copyright. NEW YORK, April 19. . Mr Elihu Root, United States Secretary of State, and Baron Rozen, Russian Ambassador, have adjusted the Harbin difficulty favourably to Ameri.ca's contention. (It was recently reported that the Russian Government was irritated be.cause Mr Fisher, the American Cdnsul at Harbin, refused to ask permission to exercise his consular functions in Russia's railway zone in Manchuria. It was understood that Mr Fisher was acting at the direct instance of the State Department in Washington, which is seeking to preserve the integrity of the Chinese possessions in Manchuria in order to protect the trade in- , terests of the commercial nations of Europe.) '
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9215, 21 April 1908, Page 1
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