The report of the removal of orme and ammunition of the various Foreign Legation guards to " blank place outside the Peking City, in consequence of the recent disaster in the German Legation, is untrue, The. Waiwnpu has never proposed anything of the kind.
It is probable, however, that the Chinese Government will' request the foreign Ministers to take this etep, but the keeping of ammuni stipulated in the 1900 Protocol, it is not easy to arrange the matter.
All parts of China are now tranquil, ud likely to continue so; and there a large number of Chinese troops who could be relied upon to suppress any agitation against foreigners. The troops consist of the Ist and 6th Divisions in Peking, the 4th Division in the vicinity of Tientsin, the 2nd} Division distributed between Paoting jand some other important points in North Chins, There are, therefore, about 40,000 foreign-trilled troops in Chihli, in addition to the Provincial forees and the _foreign-modelled Wu-wei-tso-chun force of General Ma Yé-kun at Tungchow. Moreover, the Chinese masses are now less sufi-foreign and more enlightened generally than they were in 1900. The removal of the war stores, or even the withilrawal of the foreign garrisons, would not endanger the lives and pro~ ties of thr foreigners in Priyang. disadvantage to the foreigners ant natives who eater to the wants of the foreign troops and it woulil be " loss generally of the large amount of ready money put into cirjenlation by the troops. The Chinese, in clamanting for the removal of the troops, overlook that fact, but they would' soon realize what they had lost it their wishes wore granted.
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