Minister Rockhill
to the Secretary of State.
American Legation,
Peking, May 5,
1906.
No. 302.]
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge as follows
the receipt of the department’s cablegram of the 3d (2d) instant:a
On receipt of the above I wired our consul-general at Canton, asking if
the Presbyterian mission had filed with him any claims for losses
incurred at Lienchou and for the death of members of the mission and
their families.
I received yesterday the following reply:
Rockhill, Peking:
Treasurer of the Presbyterian mission here authorized by his
board to receive claims for indemnity. Filed two claims at the
consulate, one for losses American property and the other
converts’ property, all as per lists of losses inclosed our
unnumbered dispatch December 16. Mission does not seek indemnity
for deaths. We are informed converts’ losses will be paid if
they are presented to Chinese Government.
Heintzleman.
Upon receipt of this telegram I cabled you, on the 5th instant, as
follows:a
For your further information I inclose herewith copies of the lists
referred to in Mr. Lay’s telegram of May 4, which were sent to me in his
dispatch of December 16 last. I beg to call your attention to the error
in the total of American losses, which apparently should be $49,896.40
Mexican instead of $52,786.40, and a similar error in the total of
Chinese losses, which should read $9,258.86 Mexican and not $9,057.86. I
have informed Mr. Lay of these discrepancies.
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I may also add that in a recent dispatch Mr. Lay informed me that he was
told that the Chinese authorities had some time ago deposited with the
International Banking Corporation a sum sufficient for the payment of
the claims of the mission.
I have, etc.,
[Inclosure 1.]
statement of loss of life and
property.
We find the following * * * destruction of property, occurring at
Lienchou, Province of Kwangtung, China, on the 28th day of October,
1905, viz:
Losses of real estate.
[Values are expressed in Mexican currency.]
| Description. |
First
cost. |
To replace. |
| Men’s hospital, large building,
private wards |
$4.350.00 |
$4.500.00 |
| Women’s hospital, large
building, private wards |
3,200.00 |
1,000.00 |
| Mary Whitmore Dwight Memorial,
Bible women’s hall |
1,200.00 |
1,700.00 |
| Church building |
4,000.00 |
4,500.00 |
| Chinese preacher’s house |
450.00 |
600.00 |
| Doctor Machle’s house |
3,900.00 |
5,000.00 |
| Watchmen’s lodge and chicken
house |
|
61.00 |
| Rev. R. F. Edwards’s
residence |
4,000.00 |
4,500.00 |
| Horse stable |
|
160.00 |
| Wire fence around
property |
300.00 |
300.00 |
| Wall around cemetery |
100.00 |
100.00 |
| Three tombstones |
125.00 |
125.00 |
| Chinese house: |
|
|
| Doctor Machle’s |
141.00 |
a41.00 |
| Doctor Chestnut’s |
171.00 |
a71.00 |
| Superintendent’s fees for
overseeing erection of buildings, 5 per cent cost of
building |
|
1,392.90 |
|
21,937.00 |
1,392.90 |
Furnishing buildings and losses of personal
property.
|
[Mexican.] |
| Men’s hospital |
$31.00 |
| Women’s hospital |
2,831.80 |
| Mary Whitmore Memorial Bible women’s hall |
312.80 |
| Church building |
374.00 |
| Chinese preacher’s house, books and furniture |
300.00 |
| Doctor Machle’s house (in this house also mission
property) |
6,776.90 |
| Rev. R. F. Edwards is personal property |
1,500.00 |
| Miss Patterson’s personal property |
800.00 |
| Reverend and Mrs. Peale is personal property |
1,000.00 |
| Reverend Scheirer’s furniture (property of mission
board) |
200.00 |
| Station library, with bookcases |
2,500.00 |
| Cash lost ($150. $70; $200 in silver, $20 in
pennies) |
450.00 |
| Allowance for exchange, customs, shipment |
500.00 |
| Real estate |
29,250.90 |
| Grand total |
52,786.40 |
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[Inclosure 2.]
Losses of personal property of Chinese at
Lienchou, October 28, 1905.
|
[Mexican.] |
| Lai Sing Shang |
$535.00 |
| Money in his possession (including goods) |
344.50 |
| Mo Luk Nang |
278.40 |
| U. Shun Po |
73.53 |
| Chan Pah Shek |
13.20 |
| Mo. U. Cheung |
34.40 |
| Lin U. Shi |
79.33 |
| Chan Pai So |
42.00 |
| Mo Nam Ping |
145.00 |
| Lo So |
128.50 |
| Wong Ah Leung |
21.40 |
| So Pak (girls’ school) |
16.80 |
| Wong Ah Psung |
155.10 |
| Ng Pang Shi |
15.65 |
| Lun Fook Shang |
4.25 |
| Pang Yan Kam |
69.10 |
| Chan Shi and children |
243.10 |
| Shin Psung Shi |
19.40 |
| Hui Sz Tsung |
11.75 |
| Pak Mei (Peh ho) |
60.00 |
| Yan Neung |
174.00 |
| Man San |
57.00 |
| Lei Yih |
56.70 |
| Kwai Fa |
11.30 |
| Chan Lin Shi |
35.90 |
| Shin Lei Shan |
7.10 |
| Cheung E. So |
16.50 |
| Chan Shik Mei |
40.00 |
| Shin Pai So |
43.10 |
| Lung Pang Shu |
9.95 |
| An Yeung Yin Yam |
6.55 |
| Wong Ah Kwai |
1.05 |
| Chan Po Hing |
. 55 |
| Shin Ah Ne |
2.35 |
| Lo Lang Ching |
6.70 |
| Kam San Ching |
5.95 |
| Pang Psung Yan |
1.20 |
| Pun Wan Shu |
3.05 |
| An Yeung Psunk |
1.70 |
| Ching Mei |
7.70 |
| Hui Tsni Fo |
2.60 |
| Wong Ah Kit |
47.40 |
| Shin Ah Tsoi |
31.05 |
| Pun Fuk Lam |
82.90 |
| Mo Meun Tsoi |
42.00 |
| Wong Yan Shin |
107.75 |
| Cheong Mei Yung |
56.25 |
| Tsimg Fo Po |
11.60 |
| Chan Sam So |
109.45 |
| Liu Fuk Shang |
4.25 |
| Lo Kam Tseung |
32.10 |
| So Leung Sheung |
2.00 |
| Tsui Wing Cheung |
11.00 |
| Wong Chin Kin |
12.50 |
| Cheung Sz Kai |
87.75 |
| Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hookun and children (alias Goo Shin
Yin) |
3,651.15 |
| Mrs. Chee Shu |
1,631.90 |
| Wong Meng Shang |
69,00 |
| Luk Tak Hing |
37.35 |
| Leong Wong Shu |
20.10 |
| Mrs. –– |
430.00 |
| Total |
9,057.86 |
