To the Editor of the "Nonrs-Cmrsa Dany News."
Sir,—In view of the many con-fioting stories which have reached Shanghai with regard to the condi tions under which the British Volunteer Contingents are travelling Home by the Japanese mail steamers, I thought your readers might possibly be interested to know how the twenty-eight men who left Shanghai on Friday last by the'
Atsuta Maru are being treated by our Japanese friends. The food on this steamer is exozllent, well-cooked and ample. The sleeping accommodation being all in the forward part of the ship is necessarily a little cramped, but that difficulty is got over by the simple expedient of sleeping on deck. This open air life is useful training for those of us who have been office men, and as they swab the decks about 5 a.m., we are obliged to get up at that time I cannot speak too highly of the courtesy of the ship's officers and stewarda. The Chief Steward is particularly obliving, and after to-day he ha: ranged that we are to be supplied with early morning tea. We are roughing it, of course, but we all like it and there are no complaints worth mentioning.
Tam, etc, N. Y. K. Ateuta Maru, Hongkong, Nov. 2.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.