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SmI notice that you have pub-Ushed a letter from Mr. 'T. H. Chen dated August 14, correcting a Reuter message that according to the "Daily Telegraph" the Hun-chun Treaty was a "mysterious document" of which no trace tould be found in the Library of the British Museum. be so mindful of us," and yet we have nations arming and devising terrible explosives and machines to take the lives they never created, Still through all this upheaval the day must come—and I hope it is not too far distant—when the peoples of all nations will know and understand that the Power each has been fighting for is the Universal Power (some call God) which flows through all Nature and none other than that Power in which we live and move, and have our beliet—that which motivates all created things, and man is the greatest of all erection.
Me. T.-H. Chen has already pointed/ out that this Treaty has been referred to in the "General History of the Twiing-Dynasty" by Shao Yih~ shan, published in Chinese by the Commercial. Press, Shanghai, 1928, Allow me to add that the full text of the Hun-chun Treaty and a detailed report of the negotiations leading to it ete, can be found, covering not loss than nineteen pages ch, 4, double-pages 36 to 45—, in Chinese publication 1h aba px at 2 Chung Ngo Kuo Chi-yueh-chu by Shao Ch'ang (1905), The text alone has been published at toast twice at an earlier date, including the oMfcial collection of ' documents the—at that date—Twungeli Yamen, and probably many times tater fon, "But the publication quoted above, seems to be the most detailed one.
Shanghai, Sept. 7,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.