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Show AGREEMENT MAY CLOSE OPEN DOOR Derlin, July S. The liveliest interest inter-est Is felt in official circles regarding the Russo-Japanese agreement, the text of which has not yet been forwarded for-warded to the German government. The maintenance of the status quo, which the agreement Is otenslUy intended to secure, is considered most desirable. The most delicate point In the agreement refers, according to the semJ-clflclal Frankfurter Zeltuns, to the understanding to act mutually on the defensive against the intervention inter-vention by any third power In Manchuria, Man-churia, which still belongs Li China. The agreement, therefore, cannot bo directed afloat China. It Is pointed out that America obtained ob-tained from China concessions for the Algiin-Chlu Chow railroad and the question In now raised hero whether the agreement is Intended to oppose Americans In the Russo-Japane90 sphere of Influence. If so. the agreement agree-ment Is taken to mean the closing of the open door. |