To the' Editor of the "Nowr-CHina Dany News."
Sit,—I should like to draw your attention to the following reply made in the House of Commons on Juno 2 by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. (The italies are mine).
Mr. MacDonald replying to Mr. Lumley (Hull, E,, U.) said:—No information is' at present available as to the safety of the British subjects now at Kueilin, who are under stood to be travellers and not permanent residents. Tt is believed that Kueilin is being besieged by Chinese forces who, presumably, be-Tong to one of the opposing armies of the Peking and Canton Governments.
Seeing that the C.M.S. has been working in Kueilin for at least 15
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