To the Elitor of the "Norra-Catva Duty News."
Sim,—In to-day's issue of your esteemed Faking of the Taka Forts" the following aper I find in the article headed " The passage "Several more or less incorrect ace hunts of the taking of the Taku Forts have been published in the Far East, the fighting ving taken plice when there were no reporters present, exe-pt one German who was on board the Iltis, and to whom it naturally seemed that the Itis was doing all the work. In" coloured plan published by the Ostasiatische Lloyd on the 24th of June, the Titis is represented as doing all the firing, with some slight assistance from the Russians.
That German was I, but I cannot claim i e article in the Ostasiatis che Lloyd" to which you referred. I was severely wounded during the bombard ment and consequently unable to record the gallant deeds of the Allie Powers on the occasion in question. The article, or rather articles, in the '*Ostasiatische Lloyd" were written by two different ons who watched the fight from uwo widely different points on merchantmen at anchor in the Peiho river.
For the sake of accuracy I hey you to kindly correct your statement to that effect.
Tam, ete., 13th August.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.