Norta-Carsa Dany New:
Sir,—"'Interior Treaty Port" in your issue of the 28th of August quotes a pregnant sentence from a letter from Peking of the 11th of May: "The attitude jof the Foreign Ministers is somewhat curious. Their own idea would seem to be to avoid taking any precautions which might eventually prove unnecessary," and adds: "Mr. Fraser bax not been guilty of any such reproach." That precisely what those who condemn the conduct of the Chungking Consul think he has been. He certainly might have remained at his post, till the women and children under his consular jurisdiction: not to speak of those of Kinsu and Kueichou painfully making their way out through Chungking—had passed through that city, instead of devolving his duties, as it seems to me he has done, upon Mr. Nicolson, Mr. Hyslop, and" Professor Brill, who, L understand unaided, are keeping the flag of England flying and sheltering all the great company of fugitives in Mr. Archibald Little's house at Chungking.
The French Consul, I have j tified, is at his post, standing by the Frenchmen under his care. Is it too much to ask of a British Consul that he should stand by our women and children? Tde not myself believe there is another Consul in China who would have acted as Mr. Consul Fraser has done, and I subscribe myself A Stmaxcen 1x Your Mipsr.
20th August.
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