Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-09-24
.WU TING AGAIN
Former Minister From China Who Was Recalled is Coming
 Back 10 Washington
AWlTTYSPEECH ECHMAKER

Pekin, Sept M.-The reappointment
 of Wu Ting Fang to his former post
 as minister of China at Washington | was gazetted to-day.
 Wu Ting Fang was recalled by his government from Washington in 1903.
 It was reported at the time that the empress dowager and her advisers
 were dissatisfied with him, but he was appointed to office on his return to
 China Sir Chentung Liang Cheng succeeded Wu Ting Fang and has been about four years in Washington. Li-
 ang Tung Yen was appointed to sue
 ceed Sir Chentung Liang Cheng but
 never started for this country and re-
 gently was transferred to the foreign
 office at Pekin.
 The reappointed minister to China
 was here during the boxer troubles and
 worked hard in the interests of his
 government. He is lawyer and an able orator, having practiced before
 the British courts at Hong Kong,
 where he learned to speak English
 fluently. @
 While popular during his stay in the United States for his witty, af- ter-dinner speeches, Mir Wu at times aroused sharp antagonism. This was noticeable when the church and relig- ious committees severely criticised his comparison of confucianism with christianity, to the disadvantage of christianity and with remarks concern ing the founder of the christian church which were construed at the time to be flippant.
 MT Wu had considerable to do with the choice of MT Rockhill as American minister to Pekin and it appears to be somewhat of personal recipro- cation that MT Rockhill contributes to MT Wu's reappointment by assur- ing China of Mir Wu not being per- soma non grata at Washington.
 Sir Chentung Liang Cheng spent the best part of his four years stay at Washington in devising plans for reform measures in the present ad- ministration system of China, and it has been reported that the reason for his recall was the desire of his govern ment to take advantage of his Ameri- can experience (he was educated at Phillips-Andoyer), in order to devel!- op the reform program which has been adopted at Pekin. l.. ".
 It has been stated that Mir Wu ad- vised. the recent boycott of American goods in China, but the conclusion was reached at Washington that the boy colt was the result of the natural working out of many factors and that individuals had little to do with it. Hence, it is added, the government of the United States is not likely to Mir ,Wu's re-appointed.
 Wu Ting Fang was appointed late yesterday, but the fact was not gazet- ted until this afternoon. The Ameri- cans here ascribed the action taken by the throne to the friendliness of the | Amrican press to Mir Wu and express | indifference regarding the re-appoint- | ment. After leaving Washington, Mir | Wu held the lowest ministerial post | in the foreign office and was trans | ferred to a subordinate post in the | board of punishments, where he | brught about revision of the penal | code and some civil codes and framed | regulations governing limited liabil- | ity companies, which are all said to | be of questionable value and so far have amounted to nearly nothing.
 The foreign office does not appear to have taken advantage of the exper- fence of Mir Wu except during the boycott of American goods. After the question of a revision of tine Chinese exclusin law was dropped he was rel egated to an inferior post and then retired.
 Tn some circles here the career of Mir Wu as a Chlnaman abroad is view as being only second in success from China's viewpoint, to that of the late Ii Hung Chang on his tour of the world. MT Wu's recall to official life after his work and motives had been discredited at Pekin is in the na- lure of a personal triumph, and is is perhaps creditable to him that his re- is not welcomed among the Chinese officials here, where he Is as being the sole sur viving minister of the era in which China sent linguists, and not states men abroad.