Before the shelling I had fled to the headquarters of the Kuomintang in Hsiakuan, I arrived there at about the same time as did the group who had gone into the city to try to save Consul Davis and his party. One of those men said to me a few minutes after the shelling begar, "Good! It would ave been better if they had begun sooner!" Another said:—They are no better than bandits." 1 heard no word of criticism for the firing while I was there, although Twas there during almost all of it, except the few scatterd shots that were fired at intervals after the party had escaped over the wall, (I saw one of these Inter shells explode on the wall near where the party had descended). As far as T could see there was no resentment. In talking to Chinese in Shanghai over a week later who had been nearer to the Standard Oil house than I was during the firing, and also correspondence with one of the men who had gone with the Kuomintang. party I also heard no criticism, Bifect of the Shelling, In your editorial you also sai "The shelling had apparently no effect in driving looters away from the missionary centre some miles distant." As a matter of fact the outrages were stopped immediately and soldiers as far as three of four miles away were seen to flee at the sound of the zuns, One foreign lady who was at the University Hospital near the Drum Tower told me the streets there were full of troops when the firing began and that a few minutes afterwards nota soldier was to be seen, Foreigners in different places at the time bear witness that they heard bugles sounded and that the looting soldiers were recalled when the
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