To the Editor of the "North-China Daily News Sir,—My attention has been drawn to the question which you raise in the July 11 issue of the "North-China Daily News" as to why nothing has been heard from the President of Canton Christian College relative to the "Statement of the Seventeen Americans" especially in view. of the fact that "Mr. Baxter, who published an hon-curable retraction, is only vice presiden As a recent member of the staff of the college, and als one who made every effort to learn both sides of the question prior to departing from Hongkong on June 80, I should like to state the: following facts which, T believe, constitute a simple and-complete explanation. ggpanasions in prices, and stock par-in Shanghai of every descrip- seem to be undertaken by them pri- merited censure to which she was Baxter had any connection whateena, profit, transactions which against Great Britain and the un-"Neither President Henry nor Mr. oe Reproduced wi exer with the formulation or publication of the resolutions in question, nor did either of them sign the resolutions, The statement was not published by Canton Christian College, as the "North-China" paragraph claims, for the action ws taken by the seventeen Americans thermore, both Dr. Henry and Mr. Baxter were in point of fact absent from the campus at the time. Mr. n route to Hongkong. publication of the resolutions in Hongkong, Mr. Baxter mistook them for a translation of an entirely different statement in Chinese which he had personally signed amid the extraordinarily confusing conditions prevailing on the night of June 23, and of which he had unfortunately forgotten the precise contents.
It was not until members of the college staff arrived in Hongkong on June 27, that Mr, Baxter realized he had retracted a statement with which he had no connection, The statement which Mr, Baxter and President Henry actually did sign, was entirely distinct and dif ferent from the resolutions, and has never, fo far as the present writer knows, been published, Consequently there is nothing for President Henry to retract, Tam, ete
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