Mr. Wharton to Mr. Tsui.
Washington, June 10, 1891.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your polite note of the 9th instant, and to thank you for the transmission of your telegram of the same date apprising the tsung-li yamên of the anxiety of this Government touching our citizens who reside in parts of China exposed to recent riots.
In further reply to your valued note, I have the honor to say that, according to Mr. Denby’s telegram of the 7th instant, the riots were at “Nanking and other places” and at Wusueh.
I have received to-day a farther telegram (from the consul-general at Shanghai), stating that riots have occurred at Kiukiang; that the French mission, 20 miles from Chingkiang, was burned on the 5th instant; that two Englishmen were murdered at a town on the Yangtse, above Kiukiang; and that a French mission, 100 miles from Shanghai, has been destroyed.
Thanking you again for the transmission of the telegram to the tsung-li yamên, I avail myself, etc.,
Acting Secretary.