[Inclosure 4 in No. 422.] Extracts from private letters and from newspapers relating to the famine in China. [From The North China Daily News. Shanghai, January 12, 1878.] tientsin. The…
[Inclosure 1, No. 422.] THE SHANSI FAMINE. In former letters I gave a general account of the famine in this province taken from official records, and also some particulars of…
No. 84. Mr. Seward to Mr. Evarts. United States Legation, Peking, March 14, 1878. (Received May 16.) No. 422.] Sir: It became my duty last year to inform the Department…
[Inclosure in No. 412.] Mr. Seward to Mr. Stahel. March 4, 1878. No. 115.] Sir: I beg leave to hand to you herewith a memorandum which I submitted to my…
No. 83. Mr. Seward to Mr. Evarts. United States Legation, Peking, March 4, 1878. (Received May 3.) No. 412.] Sir: Recurring to the representation made by the Chamber of Commerce…
[Inclosure 4 in No. 411.] MEMORANDUM. The chairman of the Chamber of Commerce of Shanghai in the letter addressed to the foreign ministers, on the 7th of August last, said:…
[Inelosure 3 in No. 411.] Mr. Seward to Mr. Stahel. Peking, February 23, 1878. No. 113.] Sir: The inclosed rules for the care of the harbor at your port, having…
[Inclosure 2 in No. 411.] Mr. Seward to Prince Kung. Peking, February 22, 1878. I have had the honor to receive your imperial highness’s letter, of January 31, transmitting to…
[Inclosure 1 in No. 411.] HARBOR RULES FOR SHANGHAI. Memorandum of changes made by Prince Kung, in his dispatch of January 31, 1878, submitting the rules to the diplomatic body.…
No. 82. Mr. Seward to Mr. Evarts. United States Legation, Peking, February 23, 1878. (Received May 3.) No. 411.] Sir: I informed you on the 9th instant that the foreign…