London, Oct. 5.
'The Shanghai correspondent "The 'Times" in reporting the appeal by the British' Chamber of Com-mores and the China Association for assistance {o British nationals in dis~ tress in Shanghai forecasts an increas severity of these conditions and concludes with the comment' that many Britons hitherto In. apparently secure billets now face disaster.
In the course of a leading article commending the appeal for contributions to the relief of distress in China, "The ks that Englishmen who are to-day proclaiming their sympathy for China and Chinese will prove by their donations that they will not leave their
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