At is a very touching appeal that ig printed in to-day's correspondence columns for help for an. aged Chinese who was one of the messing between the beleaguered Peking Legations and Tientsin during the Boxer Trouble, There were not many of some of the Chinese, loyal to their foreign employers, took the great risk of travelling through the Boxer lines carrying messages both ways, Had they been discovered they would have been killed, but despite their realization of this they stuck loyally' to their employers and gave the Legation the only means of communication with the outside world uring those tragic weeks nearly forty years a The man in question, through what has been happening around Shanghai, "has lost his Drinelple means of support and is now on the verge of destitution. Tt seems to have been remarkable oversight that these men Droperly looked, after when relief was brought to the Legations; but such appears to have been the ease, and, belatedly, an opportunity is being afforded those, who years since th Tance, 'There probably are not many left who through that trying experience, for four decades wreak a deal of havoc' amongst mortals, and there are only a few whose name: Fendily come to mind. "But there may be some to whom the knowledge of this man's plight will prove an incentive to extend a little assis~ tance, Obviously not a great deal would be Fequired, and it would be a pleasing gesture if, "even at this late date, early loyalty were: rewarded by that care' of which this aged Chinese is clearly in need. For that reason it is to be hoped that Bishop Norris's appeal will not {all on deaf ears, and that amongst the many 80 charitably minded in Shanghai there will be: found a few who will rally to this loyalists ald.
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