To the Editor of the Sm,—I notice from your issue of 8th December 1887, Page 611, that you had received information on Serpe authority d as mal r of the Bank, which was about to be started at Shanghai by a syndicate composed of the Deutsche Bank, Disconto Commandit Gesellschaft and Messrs. Wasschauer & Ca.
In rectification of this statement, permit me to say that so far from having received any such proposal, I am not even personally known to the firms named, and that it is not my intention ever to go out to Shanghai gain in any business capacity whatever:
Requesting the courtesy of your publishing this denial, Your most obedient servant,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.