To the Editor of the "Norts-Cama Dairy News."
Sir,—More than two months have now gone by since the occurance of the Lincheng outrage,' and in spite of the awful din of drum thumping which for a time proceeded from Peking's Legation Quarter and from the foreign communities of Shanghai and Hankow, the Powers' lightning has so far failed to materialize. To some of ud anxious sojourners of the interior" it seems likely that the nonpresentation of the Lincheng sanctions must be due to our Ministers having been converted by Mr. Coates to his belief in an imminent Second Coming. Of course to those believing that' this. will happen in September, thus solving all domestic and international problems, the futility of worrying about worldly questions is apparent. But some of us unconverted, free thinking individuals are more concerned over the safety of foreign lives and business in' China and the restoration of order in this present anarchy of military Bolshevism than we ard in the oft-prophesied Second Coming. In this port, at least; we have always to consider the possibility of a third looting, and this bids fair to materialize if the Szechuanese much longer stand firm against the Chihli invaders of "Four Rivers." At least we can be thankful that our railway is still only projected, for as it is we are spared the possibility of having Chingkungshan turned into a second Pao! tzeku.
I am, etc., (Mrs.) Lor.
Ichang, July 17, 1923.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.