Mr. Denby to Mr.
Sherman.
Legation of the United States,
Pekin, April 12, 1897.
(Received May 28.)
No. 2734.]
Sir: In my dispatch No. 2705, of March 11 last,
I informed you that I had applied to the Tsung-li Yamên to order the
dismissal of the magistrate, Liu Yan-Kwang, from office on account of
neglect of duty during the riot at Kiang Yin, which occurred last summer
during my absence in Japan.
I have the honor to inclose a translation of a communication from the
Yamên, from which it appears that this magistrate has been dismissed
from his office.
I have, etc.,
[Inclosure in No.
2734.—Informal.]
The Tsung-li Yamên to
Mr. Denby.
Your Excellency: On the 10th of March last
we had the honor to receive your excellency’s note, wherein you
state that immediately after the Kiang Yin riot, which occurred last
summer, it was decided to dismiss the magistrate, Liu Yan-Kwang,
from office; that the United States consul recently demanded of the
governor of Kiangsu that the magistrate be dismissed from office,
but the governor refused to accede to this demand.
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Your excellency requested that orders be issued to the governor of
Kiangsu that the magistrate be dismissed from office.
In reply we beg to inform your excellency that the Yamên addressed
the viceroy at Nankin, requesting him to hold an investigation into
the case, and he has now telegraphed stating that the magistrate of
Kiang Yin, Mr. Liu, on account of being delinquent in the discharge
of his duty, was in the 1st moon dismissed from office and ordered
to Nankin.
We send this note to your excellency and beg that you will instruct
the United States consul at Chinkiang that he need not trouble any
further in the matter.
Cards of ministers, with compliments.
