Tsaochuang, June 2.
Letters received from the captives do not contain a great deal of fresh information, but the following note from Major Pinger is interesting as it was written after he was brought down from the top of Paotzeku. It is now permissible to state that signals were sent regularly from the Relief Camp by means of the mine searchlight. The captives at the top were not well served with news, but the ray of the searchlight was used to send messages in Morse code to the three who were isolated from their fellow captives.
Major Pinger says: I greatly fear that the signal business has gone up in smoke for yesterday they moved us down with the others. We were more or less reluctant for we had put in some hard work on our joint up there, fixing up the paths, ete. Isn't it funny how one can get attached to his home, even if it is leased from his half-civilized captors?
However the Sap club is by no means a thing of the past. it is now under canvas in the inner courtyard of the temple. With a fly erected in the front for a verandah, it is already the social centre of the camp. The little sign hangs in front of the tent pole, and -above the A is punched a little star in memory of Allen, the first charter member to go on the nonresident list. Solomon has agreed that the last man here gets the sign.
Thanks for all the dope. It surely looks more hopeful, doesn't it? However I am not having the fatted calf killed just yet. What's a day or two compared with the time we've.already done?—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.