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Show \4, completely adequate defence of hia. The aeetlHf finally hrcke up ^ because neons had any motion to make and X sent you the telegram, reading, *«&cticn ^changed." This afternoon the notices wont out to all the offices, a U the societies and official bodies in town to say that Br. Ksu ted proved a disappointment as head of the hospital and wae discharged, and that any farther use ef hia of the asfeae of the hospital or of the church would he disavowed by the executive committee, and that I was to he temporarily the fietlng^auoerintcnflent. I had Pastor Shih come to the hospital to announce it to the hospltol staff. In the laifidie of the afternoon a actual caire frna the eoaaender saying that he wanted the guns he had lent tc the hospital.. I told the aeeeenger to go to Mrs. Ecu for tnsa. faC aessen*er told her that Br. H n was not coming bmelc from Pelplng m& eo they wanted the guns hack. That was about the first she knew of it. She cans to oee ice, and 1 tola her that the reason Dr. Ilea had been discharged was to clear the nsae of the cfcuroj fn>m the connection with the coaaander which the notiee had given, and thet the executive ccaaittee held Pr. Ksu responsible. I told her that personally I believed the ccr*-and«r to be the forger, but that the coaaittee InsiSteu on dlsalsslng Ir. Hsu regardless of prr.of la their hurry tc clear^the ( name of the church, and because of other reasons which they had againet^ Pr. rcu. Che said that fche auw the advertlsenent before it wae inserted and that it wae nowhere nearly ar. long KS the one I described m saving been orlntefi, and had no signature except Ir. houfs. 1 went With nor to trv tc find the eepf but sits was not successful, in cur first meat* inif BoBto one had mi/rested asking her if she knew scything about it, but the suggseticn >.ad t yield t-; the ©ejeetloa that such a question aight reveal what wo were taUcln^ about. » euageetlon »«dc to £*stor i>hlh reeteeAey .that, the church send a delegate to Tebchow to aeet r-r. Hsu thorc or.d fry ?-th hia tc ffaftftenfu t~ inculre at +he ne*s:-*«*er cfrioes mh^ inserted thesdyertiee-aent raid with whet authority received only ii tare; v, n a- re. lhie aomlnr vr. Liu of the Bible :jch* "1 asn© the remark th*t s- sueh^foae was mode r-rer IT. T?ru, hew abort rr. 14 who had been S'> long in j»-xl, only needing the disaissal of 3)r, veu.to ftt i in out? ~ or iu n t resist minting ont t hia thet we were tc think only oi the g< od u the church, not of tte.t .-f any individual, even Mr. A, ^ee^^e there had boon br.nd hints all along that <*ae of tae pfiae rvu* *** ^^Ijg* urgency of getting IT. l.su dismissed •«-» V v enable the J ^ ^ j L V •^*i0t the-release of Mr. Li. It was fweauently aentioned in the aiaeuselen the firet dtpi that smch dlosatiafaction was stressed sacng the general public a* | the fact that fcrf lau h*d jmtten kr. wang and .he w - wUKg ^J»tfg -j laV- tr-ubH at the tir.e no wae attached. \uw wax le suo^ect *,* v.h*a«ee * justice scene tr ae to figure prominently in tb« we$r the cuurij© ox opinion r?:a. If «isplc juetiee could be had • ^ A ^ ^ , ^ U 2 5 d courts these three men, concerning whois there was no eyiueaoe, would have been released so quickly thst no ill will Reward e ^ ; -ac wo^d have boon engendered on their account. If aixxtary prestige £f»** no force a«:elnet the innocent Pr. heu would not have seen orcwUaten into telegraohing to Tsinaufa to praise the coaaandor, aad wta^^yt have had to insert the advertiseaent. If forgery, easily pr.vy.^t ocuia be satisfaet^rily proreeuted against •* ju^ in w W h l i , -;. oeu would havn boon left to conduct his suit with expectation f-f^Jff^ and with it the ole*r**ee of the naae of the^ohtiroh ia y t 1 ^ ^ ^ ! with the opinion which the printing of toe *u vert Iseaent eriO^creu. If bandits really hod good reason, to fear the forces of li.w tit cfcvr there would be very few of them, it is vory sau. # k ~ |