A touching appeal on behalf of the Chinese of the hospital, which the combined missionary forees at Sianfu are running, is made in a letter from Dr. Clement Stockley of the English Baptist Mission, which has reached the Rev. Shields of the same mission, Writing from Sianfu on November 19, Dr. Stockley urges efforts to get permission for the hospital staff to leave the city for their homes. "We ave truly in a desperate state, Nothing but stary jon staves us in the face, Hundreds are dying in the city daily, It is possible to buy food. You cannot understand the state of affairs, It is just simply awful, It is difficult to bury all that die of starvation Many lic in the streets for days unburied and unoared for. We foreigners can last about two weeks if we are allowed to keep the little we have, We are all well and we would tike to stay a few days longer to help those we can and to see if we can help with any efforts for peace, but soon we will have nothing: to eat ourselves, Of course, if the staff cannot et out, we shall have to share ours with them and that. will not Iaxt Tong.""—Reuter,
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