The following statement from Dr. Henry, president of anton, Christian College, has been handed to the Press for publication. If refers, of [course, to the famous Canton Christian College resolution upon the recent Shameen affair:
"It isa matter of sincere regard that it has not been possi to make the following statement long before this, No outsider can appreciate the feeling on the Canton Christian College campus upon the part of foreigner and Chinese alike when it became known that a much Wonoured teacher and one of the students had been killed and at least two others wounded. very intimate sense it was a family the next morning, June 24, 1 [spoke to the students and Chin staff, at a meeting surcharged with the fonsest feeling, and where even 1 was looked upon with a certain degree of distrust. I said—and I spoke not only from a full heart, Dut with deep misgiving for th fature—that I would rather have lost an own brother and one of my own children, "Immediately after this, having, with one of my colleagues, to attend to getting some people off to Hong-Kong, I had, just before leaving, suggested that the few remaining members of the foreign staff frame some resolutions suitable to the feceasion, There certainly was no Chinese pressure of any sort in this "It wax six-thirty that evening when we got back to the campus. The problem of getting the rest of the foreign staff away the next day, plus the various pressing problems such a time on a campus where over 150 students were marooned and nonstudent population is over kept one more appears from w!
learned, that the solutions had already been drafted and sent out before I had returned to the campus that night. It was not until they appeared in the Hongkong papers, which arrived rome days later, that I read them for the first time. It is therefore evident that these resolutions can only be regarded as personal expressions of opinion and not official statement from the College.
"In order to make any sort of statement it was necessary to get in touch with some of those present when the resolutions were drawn up. Being scattered and the mails irregular this was tot easy. Meanwhile, different ones in Hongkong, realizing completely, as will lad been statements, but that at the risk of con: table delay and even further misunderstanding it might be better to wait until one final statement could be made.
"I have now satisfied myself that, regardless of the wording of the resolutions, no one had any idea whatever of suggesting which side fired first or of singling on any particular nation. In so far as the resolutions indicate or imply otherwise, they are definitely at fault, and on behalf of those who drew' them up 'I wish hereby in these respects to withdraw them, No one had had any chance to hear from the Shameen side, but what was definitely and foremost in every he's mind—was a protest against what seemed, according to the information available on June 24, to be unnecessary—weverity in the Shameen defence and the apparently indiscriminate—machino sun fire.
Had the wording of these solutions been as clear in this have fied myself was the: intention of those who drew them jup, Tam confident © so much misunderstanding would not have arisen, nor so regrettable and, beg to say, undeserved bitterness Jevoked against an institution which, Gespite every assertion to the contrary, has been striving steadily to promote international goodwill, and ay an institation with Chinese, ish and Americans on its stof? and on its Board of Trustees, has, we believe, been to no amall degree Huceessful in this and we hope will continue to be.
"We yield second place to none in our keen desire for the early adjustment of Chinese and foreign relationships. It is our belief tt the only "settlements of China's external difficulties will be one wherein mutual rights are mutually recognized, and where the foreigner well rupgested recently by 2 group is willing to do what has been
Ju ondon, put Chinese interests first."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.