Poking, 16th November, 7.50 p.m.
Prince Ching and Li Hung-chang paid together to-day a visit to the commander in-chief Count Waldersee at the Imperial Palace, Last Saturday Li Hung-chang had already called on the German Minister von Mumm.
Peking, 17th November, 11.20 a.m.
With regard to the visit of Prince Ching and Li Hung-chang which I reported last Friday, learn now that Count Waldersee granted the Chinese commissioners an interview after having received the request in writing for an audience. Ching and Li hang promised to guarantee that all Chinese troops would be withdrawn at once from all paris of the province of Chihli which are nut yet occupied by the Allies, On the other hand they requested that the governmen's of the allied Powers would comuunicite to them as soon as possible their comtitions of po
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