Nanking, Oct. 27, It ig announced that Sir John Hope Simpson has been appointed "We beg you, the teachers and followers of the holy ideas of the Lord Jesus, to raise your voice of protest in' favour of these unfortunate people, and give a help-hand to your perishing Russian brother. Speak your words of. authority to the rulers of all lands, remind them that the happiness of humanity can be had only upon the basis of love and sympathy one for another, that the immoral ideas, the anti-Christian teachings of "the Jcommuniste, shake the very foundations of the entire world.
"We beg you with all earnestness to help the Russian refugees. Save jus from being sent back to Soviet Russia, we who have succeeded in Hleaving the country. Help improve the Jegal status of those of us who funder the general authority of the ord of the Commission's work Ghairman of the Commission—Kuo "May God help you humane effort to improve the con: dition of the Russian refugees and to bring about better conditions This petition, signed by 279 Russian peasants and German colonists, who escaped from Soviet Russia and who belong to different denomina-ons, was sent to the leaders of all churches and creeds,
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