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APPENDIX T.
Letter of the 14th July, 1925, from Mr. R. Rich (Reprinted from the South China Morning Post of 31st July, 1925.)
The last Shanghai papers to hand contain the following letter:
Sir,-My attention has been drawn to the question which was raised in the July 11th issue of the "North-China Daily News" as to why nothing has been heard from the Presi- dent of Canton Christian College relative to the "Statement of the Seventeen Americans," especially in view of the fact that "Mr. Baxter, who published an honourable retraction! is only vice-president."
As a recent member of the staff of the College, and as one who made every effort to learn both sides of the ques- tion prior to departing from Hongkong on June 30th, I should like to state the following facts which, I believe, constitute a simple and complete explanation.
Neither President Henry nor Mr. Baxter had any connection whatsoever with the formulation or publication of the resolutions in question, nor did either of them sign the resolutions. The statement was not made by the Canton Christian College, as the "North-China" paragraph claims, for the action was taken by the seventeen Americans as seventeen individuals only. Furthermore, both Dr. Henry and Mr. Baxter were in point of fact absent from the campus at the time. Mr. Baxter was en route to Hongkong.
Upon the publication of the resolutions in Hongkong, Mr. Baxter mistook them for a translation of an entirely different statement in Chinese which he had personally signed amid the extraordinarily confusing conditions prevail- ing on the night of June 23rd, and of which he had unfortunately forgotten the precise contents.
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It was not until members of the College staff arrived in Hongkong on June 27th that Mr. Baxter realised he had retracted a statement with which he had had no connection.
The statement which Mr. Baxter and President Henry actually did sign was entirely distinct and different from the resolutions, and has never, so far as the present writer knows, been published. Consequently there is nothing for President Henry to retract.
NAVY Y. M. C. A., SHANGHAI, July 14, 1925.
RAYMOND T. RICH.
APPENDIX U.
Statement by Dr. J. M. Henry, President of Canton Christian College. (Reprinted from the South China Morning Post dated 31st July, 1925.)
The following statement from Dr. Henry, President of Canton Christian College, was handed to us yesterday for publication. It refers, of course, to the famous Canton Christian College resolutions upon the recent Shameen affair.
STATEMENT,
"It is a matter of sincere regret that it is has not been possible to make the following statement long before this. No outsider can appreciate the feeling on the Canton Christian College campus upon the part of foreigner and Chinese alike when it became known that a much honoured teacher and one of the students had been killed and at least two others wounded. In a very intimate sense it was a family affair.
"The next morning, June 24, I spoke to the students and Chinese staff, at a meeting surcharged with the tensest
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