Peking, Apr. 29.
General Wang Huai-ching, Chief of the Peking Gendarmerie, 1 sent a message to the foreign Ministers in Peking to the following effect Though there is a state of fighting in the metropolitan districts, yet the maintenance of peace and order in Peking is under my responsibility and I have detailed the Government troops to the race course outside Hsipien Gate and the foreign houses in the Western Hills to protect them. Legation Quarter and the foreign shops and residences in other part of Peking will be patrolled and guarded by ion prohibited without permission.
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