To the Editor of the "Noxrn-Cuiwa Dany News, Stu,—In connection with your ref erence of this morning to Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly—if my memory serves me correctly, this distingnished officer was in command of HALS. Talbot during 1904, at the time the Russo-Japanese War broke This British cruiser was at anchor in Chemulpo Harbour when the Russian warships Variag and Koreeiz were destroyed, just outside the port, by a Japanese 'Squadron under' Vice-Admiral Uriu, The promptitude and, efficiency with which Captain Bayly (as he was then) and his officers sind men carried out the rescue of a number of wounded Russian seamen struggling in the sea; and the care and attention these men received aboard the Talbot after the action, were very favourably. commented' upon, by both Japanese and Russians alike.
Tam, ete,
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