given pain to a large number of readers and that was the requirement that certain information should be obtained from the War Memorial, Which, it is understood, was actually fullied. It is possible that to. many of those who participated the memorial stands "for something, of which, by reason of their youth they may have but the faintest of impressions. To others the monument stands as a remembrance of years of bitter struggle, of noble sacrifice of unavailing grief, of devotion to duty, when men laid' down their lives in the pursuit of an ideal. It does not matter how wrong the youth of to-day might think those gallant men to have been, the fact is that to many. of their elders in Shanghai, those who served with the men whose names are emblazoned on the memorial for all to see, and those who for one reason or other were obliged merely to watch the glory of the fellows, the crated ground the subject for tainment. 'To them the Memorial is as sacred as any church. Before it, on certain days of the year, brief Prayers are offered.that the' youth of to-day and for all' the to-morrows shall not have to wade through the hideousness through which those men passed to their deaths. It is believed that what was done was done thoughtlessly "and with no idea of giving pain to anyone: if that is so fit is the best possible promise that the sanctity of the War Memorial will be observed in the future.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.