To the Editor of the "Norrs-Cmxa Day News."
Sm,—Some of your correspondents seem to think that the most important place to he defended in the present crisis is Kuling. To ask for a force of 50 marines to be sent to guard the luxurious repose of a few pleasure-seckers, is the height of sellishiness, when every available" man, except the minimum number considered necessary for the protection of the Ports, is being hurried North to relieve hundreds of foreigners, men, women, and children, who may be in great peril at Peking.' To have to spend a summer, for once, at Hankow may be a terrible hardship, but it is endured by many others who seldom have 8 chance of going to any health resort Kuling is a place admirably adapted for defence. Let the health-seekers either stop complaining, or make up their minds to go there, Having nothing else to do, the form tion of a defence scheme with a good deal of rifle practice should form a pleasant variation in the monotony of that deadly dull Lam, ete., It, R. Heaxsoy.
29th June.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.