I believe that I am voicing the views of the whole foreiga community, missionaries included, and the better class of Chinese, when I state it is considered that to recall Lieutenant-General Nogi at this' critical period would be a great calamity to the island. There has never been in Formosa man 60 generally ted as His Excellency. The most virulent foreign writers, the most complaining of the respectable Chinese, none have had one word of complaint to say against him.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.