To the Editor of the "NontH-CHtwA Datty News"
Sin,—With considerable reluctance I ask you to publish this letter. 1 would" prefer someone of greater influence to make the suggestion that I venture, by your courtesy, to offer for consideration.
The Wanhsien Fund, by its very nature, can only be supported by British subjects. That, it seems to me, places a very heavy obligation upon us all. The ordinary appeal for charity meets a ready and gene! ous response from the British communities in China and Hongkong, but this is something quite extraordinary; immeasurably greater in importance, and involving consequences that may not be obvious:
The purpose of the fund is to sup plement the pensions that are award-fed by our Government to the dependents of those who die on active service. No very considerable sum is required for the accomplishment fof this, but, as has already been pointe out, any excess monies can} extremely usefully employed Diffidently, but as emphatically Fossible, T'would urge all my fellow British subjects to give something to this fund. I would not presume to dictate, but the measure of support giver to this fund will be taken by every-one—Chinese included—to mark the measure of the support given by the British communities in China and Hongkong to the action taken in defence of British lives and my excuse, and perhaps, {justifcation, for encoaching upon your space.
I am, 2te,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.