Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 8, 1908

File No. 1518/176.

The Chinese Minister to the Secretary of State.

Imperial Chinese Legation,
Washington, November 15, 1908.

No. 13.]

Sir: I have the honor to inform you that by an Imperial edict, issued by Her Imperial Majesty the Empress Dowager, P’u-yi, the eldest son of His Imperial Highness Prince Ch’un, has been appointed on the demise of Sis Imperial Majesty the Emperor Kuanghsu, to succeed to the throne as the August Sovereign of China, and His Highness Prince Ch’un as Regent of the Empire.

Accept, etc.,

Wu Ting Fang.