Vessel to be Returned Peking, May 11.
The incident of the steamer Silesia was closed to-day by an exchange of notes between the Italian Legation and the Waichiaopu. The Italian Note emphasized the desire of the Italian Government to maintain the good relations existing between the two countries. It pointed out that the question concerned the internal rights of Italy and explained that the Government could not go beyond the limits of the constitutional guarantees which safeguarded the judiciary from interference from the executive authority. Consequently the Italian Government was unable to overrule the action taken by the company interested, nor was it able to order the Court to cancel the order for the sequcstration of the vessel. However. as the outcome of the Government's efforts, the Lloyd-Triestino Company had undertaken to withdraw the action it had instituted and the steamer would be released within six days from the exchange of notes.
The Waichiaopu replied: "In consideration of the friendship, existing for all time between our
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