To the Editor of the "Nonrn-Cutwa Datiy News."
Sim—Two very gallant ladies have lived and died for China, her people and their good. In the bitter ness of our feeling at the heinous neos of the crime; in the urgency our just demand that punishment be meted out to the perpetrators of this foul deed, let us be careful lest we, unwittingly, say oF do ought which would be a betrayal of the Jends for which the late Misses Har-ngan and Nettleton laboured, What worse memorial than that?
I ay that in their death they have struck a Blow for China for which their names shall for ever be held by this great people inhale lowed reverence, Ifa thing can tread underfoot these, the fairest loam of Christendom, then itis foul and sinister indeed. But. they shall not have died in vain if, in paying s0 great a price, they have furnished the ransom for the Chie nese people from the red monster of Communist-banditry which has raised its nead to terrorize the kinds peasantry of this land, What is logic for the occasion?
what way shall we foreigners erect a memorial to our dead sisters that, in proudly recording the liberal tion of their fine spirits, shall signs aliso the death-blow to "Commun fin" in' China? "T would suggest that the only sane, practical way is to pledge our whole-hearted support to the central government of country, to be found which is at Nanking; that we. should give them the—most unaniiguous indication of our sympathy fand ce-operation in the task of ridding this land of the red peril, And I would interject here expression of my strong feeling that many of us foreign residents in this land have been -ungenerous in Jour recognition of Nanking a3 the place which symbolizes the ising national consciousness of the Chie nese people; and excessively stinting in our appreciation of the ideals (and, to a lesser extent, efforts) me Jearnate there in a Young China which is striving to infuse new life {nto the deadwood which a hoary Jantiquity of sterile precept and tradition has bequeathed.
Yet, if we cannot yield this sympathy and ce-operation gratuitously, will, if we are practical men, at Toast yield it. "Chinese and foreign alike, our common necessity makes comrades against the menace of the cloud that lowers en our
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