The following letter addressed to H.B.M. Consul-General, Shanghai, is notable, we believe, as being the first concrete offer or suggestion for the welfare of the captives at Lincheng that has been made. It does not come from a diplomat, a politician or a public official. It recalls a familiar almost forgotten memory: the impulse of the first volunteers whd left us to join up and left those behind to carry on the bartering and talking. The writer, who igs
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