Foreign Relations of the United States, 1894, Appendix I, Chinese-Japanese War, Enforcement of Regulation Respective to Fur Seals, Mosquito Territory, Affairs at Bluefields, Claim of Antonio Maximo Mora, Import Duties on Certain Products of Colombia, Haiti, and Venezuela, Affairs in the Samoan Islands

Mr. Dun to Mr. Gresham.

No. 85.]

Legation of the United States,
Tokyo, Japan, December 7, 1894. (Received December 28.)

Sir: I have the honor to inform you that on the 26th ultimo Mr. Detring, commissioner of customs at Tientsin, arrived at Kobe, Japan, as a special commissioner from Li Hung-chang, viceroy of Chih-li, to Count Ito, His Imperial Japanese Majesty’s minister-president of state. It appears that Mr. Detring was the bearer of a letter from Viceroy Li to Count Ito, making overtures for peace. Mr. Detring visited the governor of Hiogo Ken, at Kobe, and requested that the object of his mission be communicated to Count Ito, then at Hiroshima, and that a meeting between himself and Count Ito might be arranged. Mr. Detring’s wishes were at once made known to Count Ito, who, after some delay, sent Mr. Ito Mioji, his confidential secretary, to Kobe, with a reply to the effect that, as Mr. Detring was not properly accredited by the Government of China, he could not receive him or recognize him in any way.

Mr. Detring returned to China on the 29th ultimo.

I have, etc.,

Edwin Dun.