That you and your countrymen Ihave been able to steel yourselves to such incredible feats of courage and endurance is one of those'acts of his~ {tory which men can never forget.
instructed as we are, on the one hand, by the savage hates of narrow Jnationalistic cults and, on the other thand, by the dignity sind self-control lof Chinese feeling ayainst Japan, we have no doubt whose hands bear the touch of civilization."
"The signatories dwell on the "heroic Jdetermination" of General Chiang ai-shake to abandon Hankow and of the millions of the. civil population "who abandoned their homes and went west with the armies of 7esistance.
"We look to the day when the Jdemocracies of the world shall stand unflinchingly at your side and the valour of your people will wring, even {from their enemies, that need of re-Jeognition which their own traditions [summon them to accord.
"It is our hope that when that day Jcomes, you, Sir, will be head of a united people and able to prove, not Jonly" the vitality of your national genius, but the sincerity of the British people."—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.