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During these years, I have been flying around America campaigning for Chinese civilian relief. I have covered about 44 cities, flown 50,000 miles. I do it because I feel that in China we have little material equipment with which to fight the invader. Our strongest weapon [[strikethrough]] wa [[/strikethrough]] is our morale. We simply refuse to be conquered. [[strike through]] and [[/strike through]] ^ We make up our mind to /take whatever  sufferings which the invader may inflict [[strike through]] s on us. [[/strike through]] upon us. As you know, no where is [[strike through] war suffering [[/strike through]] war-suffering more [[strike through]] intenc [[/strike through]] severe and extensive as it is in China. To keep up our morale, our strongest weapon, [[strike through]] civila [[/strike through]]  civilian relief is one of the most effective [[strike through]] means to alleviate methods [[/strike through]] mehtods at our disposal. [[strike through]] Right now the American red cross drive is on. [[/strike through]] Our American friends have been most generous in responding to my appeal. By the way, the American Red Cross drive is ^now on. [[strike through]] As you know [[/strike through]] I believe in it because it is one of the best ways to bolster up morale through its effective handling of war mishaps [[strike through]], I know [[/strike through]] It is our duty to support it.
Coming back to my story of appealing for civilian relief on behalf of the Chinese people, I like to tell you ^one experience [[strike through]] for incident [[/strike through]]  which happened ^to me in New Orleans when I visited your city about three years ago. One afternoon, a post man [[strike through]] handed [[/strike through]] ^delivered a letter [[strike through]] to an attendant at the Chinese Consulate in New Orleans [[/strike through]] addressed to me in care of the Chinese Consulate [[strike through]] to an attendant in the office. It was scribbled in pencil hurried [[/strike through]] On the envelope was scribbled in hurry my name [[strike through]] wi [[/strike through]] and address with a pencil. It had no return address and there was postage due on the letter. As I dropped in the Consulate that [[strike through]] dey [[/strike through]] day, [[strike through]] the depute consul handed handed gave me [[/strike through]] ^I was hand given a batch of letters.