No. 161.
Mr. Denby
to Mr. Bayard.
Legation of
the United States,
Peking, December 28, 1887.
(Received February 24.)
No. 533]
Sir: Recurring to my dispatch No. 529, of date the
20th instant, I have the honor to inclose a translation of the Yamên’s reply
to my communication regarding the recent missionary trouble at Chi Nan Fu,
by which you will observe that instructions have been sent to the Shantung
authorities to clearly investigate and properly manage the affair.
I have, etc.,
[Inclosure in No.
533.—Translation.]
The Tsung-li Yamen to Mr.
Denby.
Peking, December 26,
1887.
No. 19.]
Your Excellency: Upon the 21st instant the
prince and ministers had the honor to receive a communication from your
excellency citing the circumstances of a riot
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at Chi Nan Fu, which occurred on account of the
lease of property by American missionaries, in which one of them was
informed that one of the middlemen to the transaction was confined in
chains; that the magistrate had disregarded the promises of the Taotai
and that all the missionaries could do would be to accept back the
money. Your excellency requested that the Shantung authorities be
instructed to provide some remedy for the wrongs and injuries inflicted,
and proposed four things be ordered by the prince and ministers to be
done, etc.
The prince and ministers would state that it appears that there is no
record of the case in question having been reported to the Yamên. But
now having received your excellency’s communication narrating the
circumstances, the prince and ministers have addressed the governor of
Shantung requesting him in turn to instruct the Taotai at Chi Nan Fu to
clearly investigate and properly manage the affair. As in duty bound the
prince and ministers send this communication in reply for your
excellency’s perusal.
