To the Ealtor of the "Nonm-Cuixa Dancy News"
Sm—It is now clear that the un~ happy plight of the Chinese wounded soldiers and the refugees hes excited the pity and generosity of Philan-thrapists and Institutions in Eitrope. and America, and that considerable sums and supplies will oon be forth-looming for their relief.
Ching's rich men (to half a dozen of whom I could name £50,000 each would be a fleabite) can now' sit hack with the comforting assurance that the foreigner will shoulder the /work, cost and responsibility of trying t6 repair the suffering inseparable from war which everyone could fore-[see but no one cared about.
I now humbly beg to be excused the presumption of calling the attention of our own authorities to the need of diverting a portion o: the assistance forthcoming from Great Brilain to the ald of our own countrymen 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 100 plain.
Foreigners of course stand outside the actual orbit of war, but they been drawn into the effect of it' precisely the same way and in some cases more severely, comparatively, than many Chinese themselves, That this ig realized out here is of course evident from what has been done already for the evacuated, but is the situation recognized by those ind nes at home? When it becomes a Question of distributing assistance specifically earmarked by generous donors abroad for the relief of Chiese in terms of the appeal recently Iaunched, it appears to me that those generous people should' be made Eware of a more comprehensive programme that will embrace our own countrymen also or even pit them first, Possibly such representation has already been made in which case I apologize and congratulate those con-rected with the appeal, Cuamrs R. Suaw.
Shanghai, Oct, 4.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.