Indemnification Unasked For To the Editor of the "Nonru-Curva Dany News"
'Sm;—With referehee to the questions' raised in Parliament on. the subject, as reported in today's issue of the "North-China Daily News," may I remark that amongst the evacuees from Shanghai who paid for their expenses during the period of the evacuation I have not heard of Jany who: have voiced any desire to ye indemnified by the Government {or the considerable outlay, which Was the least of their inconveniences, undertaken for the good of the community in general—an outlay which, in most cases, could ill be afforded and which has resulted in very Straltened circumstances for the many who had the spirit to shoulder the Yesponsibility of incurring not only financial difteulty but of expos-Ing their families to the risk and Jdiscomfort that any evacuation en masse entails. Of those who did not obey the call there were doubtless many who could not really afford the expense which they knew was most unlikely ever to be met from oficial sources, or who had a better insight not only into the discomforts ahead of the evacuees but also into the Feaction of the dwellers in a certain colony towards tiresome refugees who might interfere with their pleasures and comfort.
If ever another evacuation becomes. necessary may there be more, both here and there, of the "true blood!"
Nor a Prece.
Shanghai, Mar, 12.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.