Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1898

Mr. Denby to Mr. Sherman.

Legation of the United states,
Peking, China, April 20, 1898.

No. 2916.]

Sir: In my dispatch No. 2901½, of the 2d instant, I set out the terms of a settlement of the recent riot at Chiang Pei which I had agreed on with the Tsung-li Yamên.

One of the stipulations was the payment of 500 taels as damages. This amount had been wired me by the consul-general as the sum recommended by our consul at Chung king, but it turned out that there was a telegraphic error, and that the true sum was 5,000 taels. I informed the Yamên of the mistake and demanded the latter sum.

I have, etc.,

Charles Denby.