Subscribers will be interested in reading the following letter Consulate General of Japan, Shanghai, 31st May, 1904.
Dean Sin,—I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your esteemed favour of today's date enclosing dollars 1,362, th amount collected by your paper as "Japan Sympathetic Fund." We are much indebted to your kind and benevolent act which was so excellently supported by our respectable sympathisers. The money will be forwarded through the Foreign Office to the " Association for the Relief of Those Serving in the Army and Navy" by to-morrow's mail. We consider the said Association is the most suitable place to meet your desire as the
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