The matter of transfer continued under negotiation, most of the sections being promised restoration, but under limitations each country insisted that the regulation: established in the section or sections should remain unaltered and threatened to take back control, if their was any failure on the part.of the Chinese. The Chinese were at first informed that no Chinese soldiers should be allowed on anatd, so long as foreign soldiers were still stationed in the city outside the legation area, Tt was then agreed that the Manchu soldiers under the Military Govervor, or Banner Troops, mizht be employed in police work, but xs police only. At first it was also stipulated that Chinese police should carry no we: pons, but at least certain sections, allow them, to carry revolvers, but no rifles. Foreign soldiers have been needed to keep the city in order, and rifles have been ow ed by them, while the Chinese must govern equally well, but with less power to force Peking's peculiar method of adm ion is especially noticeable at when foreign nations are discussing (rinsfer, and to whom the transfer is to be made, The city is in th Shiuntitenfu, and magistrates ate located in' Pekin he. prefvet generally spoken 1 Governe neither he nor the control of the ath Chinese city is under the five Potice Censors, the leader whom is Ch'en Pi, originally spoken of as a reformer, but last year a supporter of the Boxers, The Manchu city is under the control of the mili my "yamen. yamién has three Militwy Go ernors. present chief is Ching Hsin but in his sence with the Court, Prince Ching is ac'- ing. The two assucintes are Kuei Chu'n, Yamen last' year. The for with the Court from the besinnin: Ching Feng is appointed in his Furthermore Kui Ch'an is not alto acceptable, a& rumour says he was a di ciple of Kang Yi, " helper to Prince Chuan and had a Boxer altar in his own house. Na Tung is appointed on the special expiatory mission to Japan, He has only just sueceeded Tsai Ying, who is the brother of the two Boxee leaders, Prince Tuan Duke Lan.
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