To, the Editor of the ""Nowru-Cuina Date News."
Sit,—According' to a news it appearing in your issue of Novem ber 10, the. ™Shunpao"" statea—"that. the British" Consul-Generat has consented to "pay $1,000 damages to the Chinese soldier who was wounded in Chapel by a member of the Shaforce, who, itis said, will be tried by court-martial in the ear future."
T wish to remind the authorities concerned that Mrs, Marion Smith, the widow of Dr. Satchwell Smithy who was last March, foully murder. "Nationalist" garden of the place had every right to expect protection, the Gonaulate-General at Nanking," has been offered Chinese. officials and has. refused, $10,000 in fall compensation for the wilful murder of her husband. and the loss of her furniture, clothing, and motor ear; the latter was taken lby the "Nationalist" Chief of Police at Nanking for his own use, So—a "Nationall soldier" is to receive $1,000 for a wound which we are informed was Jquite accidental, and the widow of the brutally murdered Dr. Satehwell Smith has deen offered paltry $10,000 for her slain husband, her looted home, in fact, the loss of her all! It is not proportionate, but the question of proportion does not enter into the matter at all and, therefore, I protest.
Again, in your issue of the same date your readers are informed that members of the Soviet "Consulate" have been given permission to carry arms within the International, Settlement, There is, in opinion, no possible justification for this perfectly outrageous decision, These mon at No, 1 Whangpoo Road are proscribed, they are outlawed by all the laws of God and of man. They and their foul sy tem are outside the pale of civilizntion. T have it on the word of one who was present at the demonstra tion last Monday, that two of these assassins came out of their "Cor late" and deliberately emptied automatic pistols into the demon= stration afterwards rushing back into the building, If my informa ion, is correct, why are not the Indies who" wet ithnesses of the affair been. taken and subscribed to on oath?
The entire gang a Whangpoo Rond are terrorists, They will not be slow to take advantage of the permission said to be accorded thor to carry arms and they will use them on such pretext as, for instance, so-nnd-to mind a threatening gesture which compelled them. to use their weapons in self-defence, I know something of the methods of the murderous ruflans and because permission in said to be granted to. the local Chekists to carry arms—E protest, 14 Daily News" of states:—"Miss November -is going to China as one of the three delegates of the Women's International League. The delegation will visit Shanghai, Peking, Canton, and other places in which women's' organizations have been formed ete., ete." 'The British branch of this' notorious pacifist organization was formally constitute ed on September 30 and October 1, 1015, and it was associated with the attempt made in 1917 to bring about revolution in Great Britain, yhis attempt to organize a revolu. tion to end the war was supported by the Union of Democratic Control, Independent Labour Party, Britis Socialist Party, Women's Intornational League, etc. Among the supporters of the scheme were Tent in, Arthur MacManus, Gallacher, and Noth Ablett and other Syndicalists from South {°Morning. Post" Novem Whether the Women's _International League exists in America under this name I am not certain, but according to a report presented to the United States Congress on the subversive activities of the American Civil Liberties Union in 1925, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom was endeavouring to prepare the way, for the Communist uprising by bringing about the complete dis armament of the country, At a conference held at Zurich in May 1019, Miss Jane Addams, who: hag. come over'from the United States,
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