AMERICAN "GRAFT."
A FORTY-YEAE-OT>D CLAIM. United Prsps An^ociation —'By Klcctfic Telegraph—Copyright. (Received November 2, 10 VANCOUVER, November 1. A Washington message says that the Hon so Committee has opened an inquiry roga.rcl.ing the connection of exSecretary of State Foster, E. 11. Conger, late Minister to China, with the payment of £70,000 ix* the heirs of General Ward', who was killed in the Cliine.se rebellion of 18(12. The money is alleged to have come out of the Boxer Indemnity Fund, and it is stated that great influence was brought to bear on Prince Cliing to allow a forty-year-old claim to bo paid from a recently created fund.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10299, 2 November 1911, Page 2
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