To the Editor of the font-CHixa Datty "News."
Sim—I hold no brief for the soldiery of Chang Tso-lin, but the interests of truth and fair play compel me to write to you with reference to the account recently} published in your paper of the ex.
es of Mr. Edwin Towzey of train between Buen The story of the Chinese soldier holding a lighted match under the! note of the foreign doctor and another to the hem of his trousers, to the accompaniment of "bursts of fiendish glee" from the onlookers, is calculated to excite disgust at the fnsolonce of the goldier, ang to arouse sympathy for the wretched doctor! who "knew the wisdom of discretion sometimes being the better part of valour" and who dare make no remonstrance.
Tam glad to inform you that *his extraordinary story" ig without foundation of fact and that Tam 'a good position to know, being as Tam, ete, Tue Fortin Docror.
Peitaiho, Aug. 10, 1926.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.