The time has come for Peking to be handed back to the Chinese to administer and to control, The transfer, bow inly partial. Peking might be said to be governed by a foreign protectorate, much as Manchuria is governed by Russ atticers. Chinese may administer, but with foreign dictation. 'The situation is somewhat' annoying and perplexing to the Chinese:
Before the Field-Marshal Count on Waldersee left, he yave Li Hung-chang to understand that transfer would be permitted by the end of Fine, as s9on as 3,000 of Governor Yuan Shih-kai's best tro should arrive to keep in check all disturbors of the peace. Those troops started, wad got as far es Hochienfu, when the French stopped them, and the Diplomatic Rody decided shat they should not enter Peking, till evacuation had been effected,
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