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Mrs. Elizabeth Short

809 South 39 St.

Tacoma, Wash

Dear Mrs. Short:

With the greatest respect and deepest regret we beg to inform you that, when on February 23 at about 3 PM, six piratic airplanes

from the invading Japanese Navy were circling over Soochow, dropping bombs on an entirely unarmed and innocent civilian population,

destroying lives and property alike in a wanton fashion unheard of before, your heroic son, Robert Short, flying a Boeing plane, engaged

in a fight with the above planes, and after a 10 minute machine gun fire, he was shot and nose-dived to death.

It is true that Robert Short failed to bring down any of the invading planes, but he did kill the Japanese flyer who headed the raid,

thereby preventing the Japanese attackers from carrying out their bombing raid to the extent that they originally intended.

The best words of condolence are insufficient to express to you our sorrow and sympathy in this bereavement of yours. But we can at

least assure you this: No parents could have a more heroic son than Robert who gave up his own life that others might live. He dared Might

and died to defend Right for humanity and civilization. To say that he was fighting for China alone would be belittling his gallant and

humanitarian deed, because it is for humanity and justice that he died. The name of Robert Short will live long in the scroll of honor of

great men, and his meritorious service will ever be in the memory of all Chinese.

Yours sincerely,

(signed) Chiang Kwang-nai (Nominal Commander-in Chief of the Chinese 19th Army)

Tsai Ting-kai (Commander of the 19th)

Tai Chi (Chinese Shanghai Chief of Police)

这个Tai Chi是谁呢，郭泰祺？Quo Tai－chi？