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Show RUSSIAN EMBASSY MAY . LEAVE PEKIN. Announcement M.ide Tht the Czar Has G.veu Ills AtinUter Permission to . Leave Pekin. The Russian foreign office has received re-ceived a telegram.direct from M. De Giers the Russian minister at the Chinese Chi-nese capital from Pekin. The dispatch dis-patch was evidently taken by courier to Tsi Nan, the canal of Shan Tung, : and was thence telegraphed by the local lo-cal Yamen. SI. Dj Geirs announces that the siege of the legations contiuues, the besieged still having, some provisions ileft, i The Chinese government proposes to 'transmit the ministers' messages, and insist that they leave Pekin. As the ministers had not sufficient guarantee, they replied that they it receive the permission of their governments govern-ments before leaving the city. The messenger then announces that the czar's approval has been given for M. De Giers to start for Tien Tsin with his entire KlaflF anj , . , on condition that the existing government govern-ment at Pein and the emperor afford them guarantee that the journey can be undertaken without danger. ( At the same time M. De Giers is ex peeted to call attention to the heavy . .responsibility the Chinese government will incur should there be the slightest slight-est infraction of the violability of the persons accompanying them to Tien Tsin. |