Correspondents who send photographs to this office for publication [should take care that the greatest possible attention is paid to the matter.of providing captions. Not. inevitable,. and in order to over- only will this be amply repaid by Lindley as the new British Am-the assistance which is thereby given to the editors who have to prepare} pictures for the press, but unfortunate mistakes "may be easily avoided thereby. A striking example of the errors which come, about by failure to pay attention' to what seems to be a comparatively small matter, is taken from a copy of the "Natal Mercury" for December 3, when a photograph of what appears to be the Armistice Day Observance] of laying wreaths at the foot of the: War Memorial is captioned as follows: "Civil War Victims: Unveiting memorial to those killed in the]
1 wars, on the Bund in Shanghai."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.