Letter

Prince Kung to James Burrill Angell, August 10, 1881

Author

Prince Kung

Recipient

James Burrill Angell

Date

August 10, 1881

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure 3 in 198.]

Prince Kung to Mr. Angell.

Peking, August 10, 1881.

Prince Kung, chief secretary of state for foreign affairs, herewith makes a communication:

Referring to your excellency’s dispatch anent the depredations committed upon the property of missionaries at Teng Chow fu, we have further to state that we have received a representation from the taotai of Teng Lai Ching, in which he says:

“The district magistrate had informed me some time since that the Rev. Messrs. Wherry and Mateer had complained of robberies from their premises. I ordered him (the magistrate) to send detectives after the thieves, but many days elapsed and they were not apprehended, nor was the property recovered. Having now received the Yamên’s dispatch, I have again ordered the magistrate to take up these cases and make rigorous search for the culprits, appointing a time within which they are to be apprehended and dealt with.”

We send the purport of the Taotai dispatch for your excellency’s information.

His excellency James B. Angell.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P View original source ↗

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.