The Archive · 1899

The American Minister at Canton

Mr. Conger, the U.S. Minister, who has been spending some time in Canton, paid an official visit to H. E. the Viceroy on the Qn stant, when he was received with due state. "A return visit was paid by the Viceroy to the Minister on the 3rd instant at the U.S. Consulate, Shameen, when he was received in some state, a guard of honour from the gunboat Princeton having been lauded for the purpose, and. salutes being fired from the ship in his honour.

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