Tux subjoined article to this was written before the full details of the Nanking massacre had reached us. In the light of this terrible story, even allowing that it may be only partially correct, it seems mere childishness to talk of mediation. But the appeal must stand, because it is something more than a question of expediency. From external intervention, beyond the measures necessary for the safety of foreign nationals, the combatants in China are free, That principle, the united attitude of the Powers, has been solemnly affirmed by the Premier of Great Britain on the occasion which has ranked for years as the conventional moment for the declaration of Government policy. Between intervention and any form of protest there can, therefore, be no confusion. And the moment has come for the most solemn protest that the world can make against this appalling butchery. It is no Ghinese shall prevail. In point of gestion of whether Manchu or
fact, as said below, the Chinese have prevailed and the Imperial Government is paralyzed. But it is a question of innocent haman lives, of the hideous slaughter of non-combatants, of women and of little children, and the Christian Powers have no right to call themselves by that name if they can witness such crimes in silence.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.