Mr. Hay to Mr. Conger.

No. 405.]

Sir: I inclose herewith, for your information and for an investigation and report by you of the facts of the case, a copy of a notea from the Chinese minister here inclosing the translation of a dispatch addressed to him by the viceroy at Nanking relative to a recent rupture at Hsin-Chin between Chinese converts of the American Protestant mission and those of a Roman Catholic mission.

I am, etc.,

John Hay.
  1. Printed, ante.