Kung-pao in the Nurth his colleague H. Lu Hai-huan is left alone to conduct negotiations with such Treaty Powers as have not yet had their proposed new Commercial Treaties discussed. As it ix the custom of the Government always to have two Commissioners in such and other important matters we understand that the~ Peking authorities intend to send a new Associate Commissioner to work with E. Lu Hai-huan. There is a report that H.E. Wu Ting-fang may come down
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