An Open Letter to the Chinese Press (From the Secretary of the Han kow Foreign Residnts' Committee). oe Since its appointment the Hankow Committee has not been inactive. The Committee hag taken various steps to secure the release of the foreign captives, and to secure adequate protection for foreign life and property in the Interior, The Committee has also watched the Chinese Press of Hankow, Tientsin, Peking, Shanghai, etc. In scanning the various reports and editorials the Committee has again and again come across warnings to the general effect that it 's high time for China to arouse herself to action ahd establish law and order lest foreign governments interfere in her affairs.
Now and then there hag also been an utterance to indicate that sympathy is felt for the many suffering fellow—Chinese. But this has by no means Leen the dominant note.
Pra tically a whole province is being devastated, city after city is being looted and burned, thousands and thousands of Chinese homes are being ruined, millions of dollars walth of Chinese property is being destroyed, and tens of thousands of Chinese lives are being serificed, because.of the inefficiency of the military, the dilatoriness of the Central Government, and the general corruption in high places.
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