A MILITARY PAYMENT.
(Received November 2, 8.5 a.m.)
WASHINGTON, November 1
The House, in committee, opened an inquiry regarding the connection of the ex-Secretary of State, ' Mr Foster, and Mr E. H. Conger, late Minister for China, with the payment of £70,000 to the-heirs of General Ward, who was killed during the Chinese Rebellion in 1862.
The money is alleged to have come out of the Boxer Indemnity Fund, and it was stated that great influence was brought to bear on Prince Ching to allow a forty-year old claim to be paid from a recently created fund.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10467, 3 November 1911, Page 3
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97A MILITARY PAYMENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10467, 3 November 1911, Page 3
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