The dispatch did not mention the American protest over the incident outside the diplomatic compound.
They are entitled to have a base for their trading houses and a diplomatic compound.
Staff pulled out after two diplomatic compounds ransacked, with protesters shouting "death to England".
My first glimpse of this lurking violence came earlier today on a visit to the American diplomatic compound.
A few hours earlier, troops had fired on two of the diplomatic compounds as they marched down the major thoroughfare just outside the compound.
At the American diplomatic compound, food and water needed for the large numbers of people taking refuge on the grounds are running low.
The official would not identify which specific bases and diplomatic compounds had been affected.
Chinese soldiers sprayed a diplomatic residential compound with bullets Wednesday.
Mr. Runkel said it was not yet clear how they had entered the diplomatic compound.
But new problems arose here today involving asylum seekers at diplomatic compounds.