Mr. Wu to Mr. Hill.

Sir: I have honor, on behalf of the Imperial Government and people of China, to express to you, and through you to the Government and people of the United States, their deep sympathy occasioned by the dire calamity that has recently befallen the city of Galveston, Texas. To this expression of sympathy I beg to add that of my own.

I avail, etc.,

Wu Ting-fang.