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Show TREATY BEING PUT IN SHAPE. Considerable Detail Will Have to Be , Worked. Out. Portsmouth. Actual work of drafting draft-ing tho "Treaty of Portsmouth" began be-gan Wednesday. It Is being dono by M. De Martens and Mr. Donnlson, acting as legal advisors for tho respective re-spective Bides. Whllo the "bases" of peaqe havo been ncceptcd by the plenipotentiaries, considerable detail remains to.bo worked out in tho elaboration elab-oration of tho articles of the treaty. This Is "especially true In regard to the articles dcnllng with tho Chinese Eastern raliroad and the surrender of tho leases of tho Mao Tung peninsula penin-sula nnd Port Arthur nnd Tnllenwan (Dalny). M.jPokotlIoff,-tho Russian minister to Pckln, who was formerly manngor of tho Russo-Chlneso bank at Pckln nnd who has Intimate knowl-edgo knowl-edgo of all tho details relating to thoso matters. Is. assisting Do Martens. |