Washington.
As may. perhaps, be remembered, the term of H.E. Wu Ting-fang, for the last few years the popular and able Chinese Minister at Washington, has already expired for some time, and yett1o one has been formally appointed to succeed him. Tt was an open secret, a few months ago, that Minister Wu's successor would prob obis be Sir Chéutung Liang Chins, KO. a Special Am-'s Coronation, and, as a matter of fact, there is no one in the Chinese diplomatic and official circles who could better fill such a responsible post than Sir Chen-tung Liang Ch'éng. This gentleman was not only a student in the United States from the middle of the seventies to the besinning of the eighties, but was also an attache of the Chinese' Legation Washinuton from 188% to 1839, duri tenure "f office thereof the ill ter, Chans Yin-huan—who nine years afterwards was cashiered and banished by the Empress Dowager immediately following her coup d'état, and finally secretly strangled by her orders in his prison in Kashyaria at the beginning of the Boxer outbreak of 1909, when she expected 0 masstere or driv out all foreigners from China and keep them for ever from these shores. In 1897, Sir Chi Secretary to this'sime Chany when the later was appointed Sp. Ambasslor to London to. congratulate the late Queen Victoria on the occasion of Her Maje-ty's Jubilee, and in. consideration therefor the Queen graciously hes' owed it Chen-tung the Knighthood of Michael and St. George, whil- the pecial Ambassador got the Grand Cross of the same Order. "Last year, when the Emperr's brother, Prince Chun, was sent as a Special Aumbasss Germany to apologise for the murder in 1900 of the late Baron von Kettler, German Mi ter at Peking, Sie Chen-tung accom pa the Mission third Secretary, the first and second secretaries being ig Ye and Genes 1 Yin Ch'ang, the latter
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