The first sight to greet our eyes at Kobe. was the Chinese flag. To a foreigner living in China, working among the Chinese people and regarding himself as a friend of China, this was an augury of a better world—a raiiibow after the storm. The flag Was borne by Chinese Boy Scouts who lined the pier and who later offered assistance to whomsoever required it. In the harbour lay a Chinese boat, and we were informed that a Red Cross contingent had\been sent out of Shanghai to assist the Japanese as well as the Chinese in Japan.
In Tokio and Yokohama, there had been wonderment as to what China would do in such an emergency. The enemies of China were saying that the Chinese people were heartless and that they would take advantage of Japan's misfortunes to remember only the polities of the past decade. The friends of China, including myself, insisted that China would meet this situation on strictly ethical grounds, that She would contribute food, funds and whatever she could spare, and perhaps even more, to help Japan. Imagine, therefore, the pride of a friend of China in the correctness of his understanding of the Chinese people! The sight of the fivebarred flag in Kobe harbour at such a moment gave Me as much joy as the sight of my own flag.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.