To the Editor of the "Mobrh-Çhimg Dalny News" WI Sm,—It is now clear that the unhappy plight of the Chinese wounded soldiers and the refugees has excited the pity and generosity of Philan-thrapists and Institutions in Europe and America, and that considerable sums one supplies will 300n oe forthcoming for their relief.
China's rich men (to half a dozen of whom I could name £50,000 each would be a fleabite) can now sit back with the comforting assurance that the foreigner will shoulder the work, cost and responsibility of try ing to repair the suffering inseparable from war which everyone could foresee but no one cared about.
I now humbly beg to be excused ihe presumption of calling the atten-Yon of our own authorities to the need of diverting a portion of the assistance forthcoming from Great Britain to the aid of our own country-then here, many of whom are in dire distress, and whose wants increase with every week that passes. No special pleading is necessary. The facts are all too plain Foreigners of course stand outside the actual orbit of war, but they nave been drawn into the effect of it in precisely the same way and in some cases more severely, comparatively, than many Chinese themselves. That this is realized on: here is of course evident from what has been done al-the evacuated, but is the recognized by those kind home? When it becomes a question of distributing assistance specifically earmarked by generous donors abroad for the relief of Chinese in terms of the appeal recently Inunehet, it appears to me that those generous people should be made aware of a more comprehensive programme that will embrace our own countrymen also or even put them first Possibly such representation has already been made in which case I apologize and congratulate those con-rected with the appeal
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