Conflict Forced on Japan, Says Letter to "Times"
London, Oct. 6.
The Sino-Japanese conflict has been forced on Japan, declares a letter, which is given in "The Times" to-day, by Prince Tokugawa, Viscount and Barons assistance to British nationals in dis- Eigo Fukai. tress in for severity of this distress concludes with the comment that many Britons hitherto in apparently secure: billets now face disaster. comme the appeal for contri-In the course of a leading article ing at the meeting of the E butions to the relief of distress in Commission of Jurists at The Hague China, "The Times" remarks that Englishmen who are to-day proclaim-adopted because ing their sympathy for China and French opposition.
Chinese will prove by their donations that they will not leave their however, and one "As long it it Bener a own countrymen in the lurch, Many the signatories att, British subjects in China who were hitherto in well-to-do circumstances have suddenly become destitute becawe they had no opportunity {o rescue their property from the fighting zone and now need help urgently. So great a misfortune has overtaken Shanghai that the local auth-Christians orities are quite unable to cope ad-are aware of the facts, will be re-equately with the distress—Trans-peated with wider reference by anyone who reads the letter.
It must be asked with respect. the newspaper concludes, whether the
LORD MAYOR HEADS
signatories. too, are not victims of propaganda which patriotism cannot easily withstand and which has
RELIEF DRIVE
served, only too well, to put Japanese statesmanship in a complete, if temporary, éclipse.—Reuter.
Prompt and Efficient Help to be Given London, Oct. 5.
10 was announced to-day, with the approval of the Government, that the Lord Mayor of London was organizing, with the ce-operation of the Governor of the Bank of England, a fund for the relief of the Chinese.
The announcement states that the Lord Major is organizing an appeal in the City of London so that prompt and efficient help may be given to the people of China, who are "enduring untold suffering as the result of hostilities in their country," and the large number of British subjects affected, A small committee will be formed, representing all departments of financial and commercial life.
Meanwhile, it is pointed out that British sufferers are clearly included in the appeal issued on October:2 by the China Association, the Conference of British Missionary Societies and the British Red Cross.—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.