'The military activities of the Shanghai Defence Force may gummed up og follows. March 24, they expelled from the concession a communist soldiers' mob that vere rioting quite near my home. Did you return the fire?" were ced some Punjabi British soldier turning with a dead comrade. "No," was the reply, "we had no orders to shoot." They silenced the communist machine gun merrily firing down Darroch Road where live. They scattered communist snipers on the North Szechuan Road. In this good work all the eayualtios were suffered by the Defence Force. On two occasions they disarmed defeated Northern soldiers who had broken into the Settle-mont bent on loot. These poor fellows were then fed, put on Japanese ships and sent home.
But on the other side of the barbed wire entanglements, from tthe vicinity of the Russian Church, the Door of Hope, Southern Bap-fist Mission, and the orphange of the Holy Family every day came echoes of Holl's Symphony played fon Soviet-land instruments, while innocent people caught within the firing line were slaughtered.
The troops are still on their job. They attend church on Sunday, protect the Settlement every day out firing a shot, and foreigners and Chinese are grateful.
S"T hope you will give my letter the seme publicity as was accorded Anna Louise Strong's.
Yours in His service (Signed) Laura M, Waure.
'We have been' asked to mention that Mr, Keen, the Wesleyan. Chaplain, has" given sonal assurance that he wears a gown when conducting services, and go he could not have led the' service at which Strong professes to have Shocked ut seeing a collar ed at the back."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.