Peking, Mar. 30.
Mr. H. Picard-Destelan, co-Director-General of Posts, left for the South to-day. about an early settlement of the ease. Mr. Edwin S, Cunningham, American Consul-General at Shang. hai, and Dr. G. Zay Wood, Chief of "the Section of " American-
European Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, were authorized, respectively, by the American Minis. ter and General Huang Fu to take up the preliminary negotiations, which lasted almost a month. As a result of their Inbours the groundwork was ready when Mr. Mac-Murray returned to Shanghai from his trip up-river. Te did not, therefore, take more than two sessions for General Huang Pu and Mr. MacMurray to agree on the draft of the Notes to pass between the Nationalist and United States Governments, after which the Notes were duly drawn up in English and Chinese and signed on March 30.—Reuter.
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