In connexion with the seizure of 98 Germans, Austrians and Turks on board the China, the following letter has reached us:—
"The Lusitania also flew the American flag. Had the Briton followed the example of the Hun the China would have been sunk without warning.
"Pa Frits must have found it hard to part and leave Ma Fritz and the little Fritzes to continue their journey alone, but there is consolation in the fact that Pa will be treated humanely, which ix more than can be said of the Lusitania Turkish Headquarters, Feb. 22.
"Before the Russian enemy the Turke have retired to positions wear of Erzereum after having destroyed the positions 15 kilometres east of Erzeroum and 60 old guns, which could not be transported. The phantastic reports of the Russians, except the fight in the above mentioned positions no fighting has occurred. The forts of Erzeroum, the city of which remains undamaged, had no military One begins to understand the mild protest recorded from the House of Commons, the day before yesterday, against the inaccuracy of Turkish reports. The local German Fiction Factory itself has never done anything better. But when the natural Oriental tendency to guile is allied with the Teutonic art of scientific perjury, one expects something superior.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.