The Shanghai Students' Union have sent us the following letter which was received from General Wu Pei-fu:—"have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your recent letter. Iwas ashamed to read those words of high praise and encouragement. Surely I do not deserve them.
"Twill, of course, do exactly what is right, but I must depend upon you and other citizens to ce-operate with me and assist me in every way possible. A single wooden beam cannot support a huge building.
"Our country at resent is in a deplorable static and in a very weakened condition. We have to fight our way all along, otherwise we shall be subject to attacks. We must. first clean up the inside of our house, otherwise diseases will come one' after the other. How can we reform our politics without first educating our people? Let us trust each other and try to do our Lest for the salvation of our coun-
You are all patriotically in. clined and T honour and esteem you ever so much. We will cooperate at all times and fight for the unification of our country, and then we will talk about reforms. These are the duties which we are charged to do.
"Let me assure you that I have no scheme of self-aggrandizement in my heart and it is my one desire to obey the will of the people and do justice to all.
"Wo Pevre."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.