CHINA AND AMERICA
THE COLTMAN INCIDENT. A SETTLEMENT EFFECTED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright WASHINGTON, April 28. The Chinese delegation has announced that the Coltman case has been settled by the American Minister at Peking and the Chinese Government.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
Mr Charles Coltman, an American merchant, died from wounds inflicted by Chinese batidits, who fired on his motor car in , December of last year. The incident was the most serious of a number of acts of banditry in the Honan Province, and it provoked a joint Note from the, Powers stating that they would be compelled to take drastic action, as the Chinese Government appeared to be powerless to deal with the situation. The matter was also the subject of a dramatic telegram forwarded by Mr C. E. Hughes (Secretary of State) to the dinner of the China Society in New York on February 15.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18850, 1 May 1923, Page 7
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