the Editor of the "Nouru-Caiya Dau N
Dear S1,—The article whi cabled to you by Reuter from the Telegraph" regarding the strategi and results of the Japanese Army at the Yalu River contained several important mnisstatemonts and errors that in the torest of historical truth ought nut to be allowed to pass unchallenged.
could not help smiling when L read that such an important newspaper as the "Daily Telegraph," compared the facts 80 far occurred in the Russo-Japanese war with the Franco-German war of 1870-71, the more so as a battle in the true sense of the word so far has not taken place between the Russians and Japanese at all. Tate aay the writer in question has not A North Chinchon dispatch states that the Acting Tartar General of Kirin (Central Manchuria) has lately informed eneral of Moukden, Tsou to the effect that various bodies of Corean malcontents from Heienchingtad (Corean:-—Hamkyengdo province), which y borders Kiri province, have broken across the frontiers and are now engaged in plundering the Chinese towns in that vicinity. The Coreans are stated to be well armed with rifles of Russian make and carrying everything before them. The Kirin Tartar General further declares that all his own troops have been disarmed by the Russians, so that he is helpless and he thore-fore asks the Moukden Tartar General to send troops to drive out the Corean bandits. Unfortunately Tseng Chi. is in the same plight as the Kirin Tartar General. the "Moukden troops having already been disarmed some time ago,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.