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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[11018]
No. 1.
[March 26.]
SECTION 1.
Sir G. Buchanan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received March 26.)
(No. 69.) (Telegraphic.) P.
St. Petersburgh, March 26, 1911. VICE-CONSUL at Vladivostok telegraphs on the 24th March as follows:- "Orders have been issued to the first infantry division, stationed at present at Resdolny and Nikolsk, to proceed to Harbin, and to the first and second reserves of Cossacks to hold themselves in readiness.”
I saw the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs yesterday evening, and reminded him of the assurance which M. Sazonoff gave me last month, that no military action would be taken by Russia in Manchuria. He said that the measures referred to by the vice-consul at Vladivostok were being taken as a precaution against the possibility of an attack on the Russian frontier, and to enable troops to be sent to any point on the railway which the Chinese might threaten.
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