Peking, June 15.
Dr, Ingram had resided many years in China. He had survived the Boxer uprising, numerous other dis turbances, and' more epidemics than he cour remember, only to meet his death during what had been a placid vacation unfit the bandits appeared this) morning.
The United States Minister, Mr. Nelson T. Johnson, who had been a friend. of Dr. Ingram for 27 years, called on the Chinese authorities to protest the shooting as soon as the ews reached here. The Minister Urged immediate steps to restore law and order in the Western Hills dis-{rlet, where the lives of many other Americans would be endangered by continued bandit operation:
Mr, Wang Ching-wel. Minister of Foreign Affairs, verbally expressed his deepest regrets and assured Mr. Willys R. Peck, Counsettor of Lega tion, that the authorities in Peking would be instructed to. prosecute the matter with all possible diligence—United Press.
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