To the Bditor of the joun-Ciwa Lany News"
Sin—The following is of sullleient interest {o pass on to others. It is froma letter sent from Sulllyent Alabama, U.S.A., dated December 27, 1936.
"We have been very much inter cosied in the recent news from Chi Soon after General Chiang, was kldrapped 1 heard (over the radio) th man who took his place during absence speak, could understand him better than President Roosevelt when he spoke from South America or the Duke of Windsor in his fare-Well message before he lett England. As I remember, this speech telephoned from Nanking to Shang-hal and radioed from there to us by way of San Francisco, enjoyed the music so much at Christmas-time. 'The most interesting, musi 1 heard was from Shanghai 'About 9.00 or 9.30 am. One of the songs was 'Silent Night' sung in Chinese. "If we understood correctly, it lacked but a short time of being Enclosed with the letter was a clipping from the preceding night's issue of a Birmingham (Ala.) news. Paper; quite a lengthy article headed Chiang Flies Home. China's Strong Man Given Liberty After Being Held for Two Weeks by excellent pictures of General and Madame Chiang, We suppose the radio speaker mentioned in the first paragraph was Dr, H.W, Kung.
Kiangyin, Ku, Feb, 15,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.