Show Our Foreign Relations WASHINGTON May 3A considerable consider-able portion of the forthcoming volume on foreign relations for the last year is made up of the correspondence by cable and mail growing out of the anti missionary riots in China The Te correspondence corres-pondence shows that the greatest energy and vigor was manifested by our officials both in Washington and China in moving for the protection of Americans in China and for the pun ishment of Chinese who had been concerned con-cerned in the riots The main facts have already been sent out in the news dispatches but the summary of the efforts of the state department by Mr Denby our minister at Peking is interesting in-teresting where he says after describing describ-ing the complete success attending the i work of American commissions I To tile department of state is due beyond all doubt the credit of having broken through CHINESE OBSTINACY and of having diplomatically and I withoutmenace brought about a result which will constitute an era in the treatment of foreigners in China Mr Denby is also on record in the correspondence as delivering a most glowing tribute upon the American missionaries Mi Adee who acted as secretary of state during the progress of the rioting riot-ing and was daily in cable connection with Minister Denby is also shown as possessed of the utmost energy and determination in the effort to protect the Americans in China For instance he telegraphed Mr Denby upon the latters suggestion that there must have been official connivance in the massacre of miss maries and stern reprobation and punishment must be expected with the reparation and SAFEGUARDS FOR THE FUTURE and again when he came to know that the Chinese government ian actually about to appoint one of the chief officials of-ficials concerned in the riots to invest gate the same Mr Adee cabled You can hardly have failed at once to remonstrate re-monstrate against the offensive impertinence I imper-tinence of appointing such a man laboring under such a grave charge to investigate a similar grave outrage in another province than that in which he himself had misgoverned |