Nov. 3.
One feels tempted to display; perhaps not altogether pardonable measure of ignorance, and to ask if Miss Laura M. White has any particular charity on Iwhich she concentrates, and then use one's pen in wholeheartedly recommending that charity to Shanghai, for assure ly Miss White has done the wh lof Shanghai a very great service, land in particular the British and Americans. Than Miss Anna Louise Strong's statements in "Five Churches in Shanghai"—which we publish in another lcolumn—there scarcely could be a more amazing collection fof what one cannot refrain from stigmatizing either deliberate falsehoods or the Products of sheer ignorance. Miss White deals with them jad seriatim with a gentle firmness such as very few could fuse in such circumstances, and she, who must know her subject thoroughly, apparently could not find a true statement in the whole of the very lengthy letter. iit should be noted, too, that this is not an argument over policies, for principles, or anything el that in any way can be debatable, but a simple statement of facts.
When Miss Strong refers to; the Right Reverend Dean" and inbes at what she professes to Ihave heard him say in a sermon, land Miss White shows that the preacher was a military chaplain, there can be no argument; and the same in the case of the preacher in the Union Church. Nor can there be any disp lover the explanation that. the [Chinese School never has been closed, the boys have not been turned away, and British troops have not forcibly occupied the premises. If anyone' should know, and if anyone would fight for the uninterrupted maintenance lof the smooth working of the school, it would be the dour Scots dominie, and his denial ends that argument.
Best of all was the following (referring to the Union Church, and the preacher there)
"Before him was a room two-thirds filled with clean looking American boys blue-and-white suits remind cent of the sea. Informal suits they wore; some had their blouses pulled down firmly over the "hips, others had wrinkled them jauntily about the waist with a little twist which exposed. the lines of innly.; knit. -limbs, beneath,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.