To the Editor of the "Nonra-CuiNa Dau News."
Sit,—"Logic" would have us understand that, but for the Chinese residents, the foreigners could almost do without any volunteers or police. The foreigners can "do most of the protecting themselves." Allow me to point out to him that, not only do the foreigners here need all the volunteers and police, but. they even find these forces insufficient to protect them; to wit: they call in the assistance of gunboats of all countries and British Defence Forces and they freely admit was these forces which saved them from imminent destruction!
Macaulay wrote of Clive that he conquered India with a handful of his brave countrymen. Such was the weakness of the natives and the bravery of the foreigners! But the bubble of such half-truths is long burst. Clive was able to conquer, not against the natives, all stand: ing together, but actually with the help of these natives who fought ander him as bravely as the for-
To sny that the foreigner, as a rule, is braver thea the Chinese— interest in the fighting, for as soon as ashet is fired, they commence to retreat, their whole object is based fon loot, as one of the benefits offered to a recruit when he joins the army is the opportunities offered for looting as he is entitled to retain all that he is able to get away with. It is not necessary to mention any specific incident to prove the lack of courage on the part of Chinese soldiers and officers, but, let us take for instance the' evacuation of Kiukiang, also the rout of the Nationalists down the Tsinpu line Jast fall, when not a shot was fired. On this occasion we marched 460 without a halt; at Kiukiang about 12 shots were fired and 50,000 start ed to flee for their lives for the n bank; upon arrival at Nanking after the evacuation of Kiukiang, I resigned from Sun Chuan-fang' army, ang joined with Chiang Kai shek, being at that time enthusiastic believer in Nationalism, but after a few months in the ranks of Chiang Kai-shek's army, it began to filter into my mind that the, grand and glorious "Three People's Principle," expounded: by the Nationalists was sour grapes.
Myself along with a great-many of my countrymen deeply 2er"
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.