本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛Enclosure No. 1 in Despatch No. 296
(Translation)
Prince of Ch'ing to Mr. Rockhill.
Foreign Office, April 23, 1906
Your Excellency:
I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that I have this 30th Day of the Third Moon (April 25, 1906) received Her Imperial Majesty's Edict, as follows:
"WE have received the commands of Her Imperial Majesty, Tzu-hai etc., etc., Empress Dowager, saying:- "The city of San Francisco, in the United States, has suffered a very serious earthquake shock, and this Court is filled with compassion.
"Let One Hundred Thousand Taels be appropriated from the Imperial treasury and sent by the Board of Foreign Affairs to the American Minister in Peking, to be by him at once transmitted by draft to the afflicted city for the relief of distress and as a mark of friendship between the two countries."
"Respect this."
My Board having now received One Hundred Thousand K'up'ing Taels from the Board of Revenue, I have the honor to send the same to Your Excellency, that you may immediately transmit the same, and that you may telegraph Your Excellency's Government in notification of this action.
I trust that you will kindly make acknowledgment, by which I shall be obliged.
I avail myself of the occasion etc. etc. etc.
Cards of Prince and Ministers enclosed.更多精彩文章及讨论,请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
(Translation)
Prince of Ch'ing to Mr. Rockhill.
Foreign Office, April 23, 1906
Your Excellency:
I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that I have this 30th Day of the Third Moon (April 25, 1906) received Her Imperial Majesty's Edict, as follows:
"WE have received the commands of Her Imperial Majesty, Tzu-hai etc., etc., Empress Dowager, saying:- "The city of San Francisco, in the United States, has suffered a very serious earthquake shock, and this Court is filled with compassion.
"Let One Hundred Thousand Taels be appropriated from the Imperial treasury and sent by the Board of Foreign Affairs to the American Minister in Peking, to be by him at once transmitted by draft to the afflicted city for the relief of distress and as a mark of friendship between the two countries."
"Respect this."
My Board having now received One Hundred Thousand K'up'ing Taels from the Board of Revenue, I have the honor to send the same to Your Excellency, that you may immediately transmit the same, and that you may telegraph Your Excellency's Government in notification of this action.
I trust that you will kindly make acknowledgment, by which I shall be obliged.
I avail myself of the occasion etc. etc. etc.
Cards of Prince and Ministers enclosed.更多精彩文章及讨论,请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net