Foreign Relations of the United States, 1901, Appendix, Affairs in China, Report of William W. Rockhill, Late Commissioner to China, with Accompanying Documents

Mr. Conger to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase]

Peking, February 17, 1901.

(Mr. Conger reports the receipt on the 16th instant of an unsatisfactory edict decreeing exile for Tuan and Lan without capital sentence, suicide for Chuang, death for Yü Hsien, degradation and imprisonment for Chao Shu-chiao and Ying Men, and undetermined punishment for Chi Hsiu and Hsü Cheng-yu.)