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While Gilbert was having his own troubles in Port Arthur the differences between Russia and Japan were speedily reaching the acute stage.
Long before, by the Anglo-Japanese treaty, Russia had promised to evacuate Manchuria. But this, as we have already seen, had not been done, and, instead the Russians had begun to flock to northern Korea, where a certain company obtained mining possessions and even began to construct fortifications.