To the Editor of the "Nonru-Curxa Dany News"
Sm—At the risk of being wearisome in the last degree I would yet beg your indulgence and patience to remark that war is made infinitely more probable by a show of "pessimiss," which might 50 easily be misunderstood, than it'would be by firm and known determination defend to the last ditch the principles: upon which our freedom is founded.
If the general peace of Europe were threatened we could no more escape our responsibilities in this respect than we could hope to escape them if the threat were brought to our own shores.
'The effect of our determination in this respect in the cause of security and peace, known fully in time, cannot be' gauged. In any book of worth on the last war it is the one thing that stands out clearly: the havoc wrought by certain indetermination on our part. When our determination to resist force was fully known it was then too late. Mone Horerut.
Shanghai, Aug. 22.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.