News has been received from Hsianfu that the Chine-e Government notified the peace commis-ioners that, the conditions for a preliminary peace having been accepted, the Emperor snd the Empress Dowager were willing to return.to Peking, but they must first demand the withdrawal of the allied troops, from Chibli. Their withdrawal, the Court thinks, would be so much more necessary, because the peace negotiations would take a rather long time, as the Chinese Government are about to point out more than two hundred questions which must be arranged before final peace can be restored.
Berlin, sth January, 7.25 p.m.
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