To the Editor of the Nortn-Cuixa Datny News. vent cubseribers learned that at least one Sin—In your paper of the 6th instant
{Englishman is disgusted over the Kutwo affair, and though not an Englishman I have also read with disgust the reports of the affair.
"The writer remembers when he was an officer ona C. M. vessel in 1886 an instance of pirates being put in a warm corner, with the result that some lost their heads and some jumped overboard, with the ship going at full speed. It is very difficult to say what should be done on'such an occasion, hut it is a wonder to a passenger who knows something of China and its people when he sees on board a great Yangtze river boat a few old rifles standing in the saloon.
Why not have telephones from the compradore's and engine rooms to the wheelhouse? Why not provide the officers with modern weapons? Besides, it should be Known that on board a passenger steamer when pirates appear a 12-bore sporting gun with AA or BB shot is a very formidable weapon, and can be recommended as most effective up ts thirty yards, The sooner the river boat companies take precautions the sooner will passengers be able to travel with safety and comfort. Tam, ete., Precavtioy.
'9th June.
To the Eqitor of the
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