Office of the Historian

File No. 1518/191.

The Chinese Minister to the Secretary of State.

Imperial Chinese Legation,
Washington, November 30, 1908.
No. 19.]

Sir: I have the honor to inform you that by an imperial edict published on the 28th instant, it has been decided to designate, beginning with the first noon of next year, the title of reign of His Imperial Majesty, the new Emperor of China as Hsiiant’ung, and by the same edict the 9th day of the present moon (Dec. 2) has been appointed as the auspicious day on which His Majesty will formally ascend the Imperial Throne. Accept, etc.,

Wu Ting Fang.