Letter
Sewabd to Wm. M. Evarts, February 23, 1880
No. 154. Mr. Seward to Mr. Evarts.
Legation of the United States, Peking, February 23, 1880. (Received April 26.)
No. 605.]
Sir: I have the honor to hand to you herewith a copy of the response made by the foreign office to my letter in regard to the case of Chung How. My colleagues, the English, German and French representatives have received notes of the same tenor.
While the fate of Chung How is not yet known, it seems to me that the determination reached by the government to reopen negotiations with Russia, and the knowledge that extreme measures in his case would cause general dissatisfaction and effect prejudicially their further representations at St. Petersburg, indicate that the moment of gravest danger for him has passed.
I have, &c.,
GEOBGE F. SEWABD.
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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.