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Show WOULD ALLAY FEAR8. China Assures Russia That Neutrality Will be Maintained. In order to nil ay Russian apprehension apprehen-sion as to the attltudo ot China, tho Chinese minister at St. Petersburg has given Foreign Minister Lams-dorff Lams-dorff fresh assurances of the purpose, pur-pose, of his government not to violate vio-late Its neutrality nnd to presorve tranquility throughout tho ompiro. Theso assurances, which aro based on dispatches rocclvcd from tho Chi-noso Chi-noso foreign ofllco n'nd Viceroy Yuan Shi Kal, commnndor-ln-chlcf of tho Chlneso forces, set forth in tho most posltlvo terms that thero Is absolutely absolute-ly no ground to bcllovo that China will dopart from her proclaimed attitude. |