The gentry, literati, and merchants of this city are sending a letter addressed to the patriots in Shanghai fully endorsing what has been done in protesting against the signing of the Russo-Chinese Agreement concerning Manchuria. There is great enthusiasm among all and it is acknowledged that the meetings Shanghai have opened the many people who have hitherto remained in ignorance as to the present actual condition of the Empire. A fund has been started here in Hangchow to aid in defraying expenses incurred in opposing the designs of Russia.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.