Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President, Transmitted to Congress December 2, 1895, Part I

Mr. Olney to Mr. Yang Yü.

Department of State,
Washington, September 20, 1895.

No. 12.]

Sir: In compliance with the request which you expressed to Mr. Adee in a recent interview with him at the Department that you might be informed of any action your Government might take in the matter of the commission of inquiry to Chengtu, I have the honor to inform you that under to-day’s date Mr. Denby, our minister at Peking, cabled to me that the Chinese Government had withdrawn all objection to the dispatch of the proposed commission, and that it would leave at an early date.

Accept, etc.,

Richard Olney

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