Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1902 — CHINA SENDS NEW ENVOY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CHINA SENDS NEW ENVOY.

Sir Liang; Chen st Tung Named to Succeed Minister Wu. Sir Liang Chen Tung, formerly secretary to Minister Chang Yen Huang, who was beheaded in 1900 after being exiled to Turkestan, has been appointed Chinese minister to the United States in succession to Wu Ting Fang. Sir Liang Chen Tung is secretary to the Chinese embassy to the coronation of King Edward. Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese minister in Washington, has received from Pekin an imperial edict naming him as one of two commissioners to prepare a report on the laws of other countries. This is regarded as a diplomatic way of recalling the

Chinese minister, who has been so popular in this country, and so helpful in aiding this government to rescue Minister: Conger and the other foreign ministers when they were besieged in the legations in Pekin by the Boxers two years ago. The Dowager Empress has never forgiven Minister Wu for his action in that matter, but she has realized that it would be dangerous to visit her displeasure on him openly by recalling him, as has been often rumored was intended. By following this plan of honoring Mr. Wu with another important mission at home there is no apparent hostility to him. The new work he is called upon to do will ueecssarily take him to Pekin.

WU TING FANG.