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pronounced these our endeavours to be an advantage for the people of this colony. Victoria besides Stow being the entrance icor de- all our inland-stations, we would be separated from the whole of our Chinese mission field, in case our communication with Hong Kong should be shut up. Your Excelleney will be aware what it means for a Society to be out of touch with a staff of 46 missionaries and 38 missionary ladies. Besides there are 25 dhildren. At the present moment we do not know to what privations and other hardships they
the may be exposed. Our Society is partly Swiss and partly German, headquarters being at Basel in Switzerland. Is ist too much to ex- pect that a work done for the benefit of Hong Kong will be considere and dealt with in the same manner as international institutions
placed under the flag of the red cross"?
I need not assure your Excellency that our missionaries on all occasions have been loyal to the English Government in Hung Kong and tried their best to foster a spirit of loyalty amongst
the Christians of our persuasion.
We beseech your Excellency to relieve our mission stations and our Society from this grave care and to do what is within your power to counter-act the obstruction or ruin of a work including such a large amount of self-sacrifice and pure love. We have experienced the benevolence and help of the British Governaënt į on so many occasions that we rest assured also in this time of scre afflication we shall not have vainly appealed to English magnanimitys
May I assure your Excellency in conclusion that we shall
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