the Editor of the "Nonri-Cmxa Dany News"
Sin—In the "North-China Herald' lot February 19 last (copy of which 1 received yesterday) appears a letter from Mr. F. Lionel Pratt, with the above heading, giving an account of Ihis end Lieutenant Mahon's adventure jon the ice near Chinwangtao thirty-five years ago.
"At the end of the letter Mr. Pratt Jwrites: "Possibly there are still }people in Shanghai who remember remember the incident very dis linetly. I left Shanghai for Chinwangtao on January 27, 1901, by the [German "coast steamer Apenrade, Captain Lorentzen.
'When the Apenrade arrived at Ichinwangtao, at the beginning of February, it' was found that, on ac-Jcount of the ice, she would have to [stop about a mile off the coast, and the passengers had to walk ashore across the ice.
"At Chinwangtao everybody stil! talked about Mr. Pratt and Lieutenant Mahon's terrible experience on the ce, and we passengers of the Apenrade were, of course, given a Jdetalled account of the incident.
'TLremember that the man who des-jeribed the adventure to me was an Englishman, an official of the postal service, who had been tem: porarily transferred to Noth China {in order to assist In the running of the post office attached to the China Expeditionary Force. He had been Mr. Pratt and Lieutenant Mahon's fellow-passengers on board the Kwangeht.
The voyage of the Apenrade, when 1 was a passenger on board that ancient Ganuary-February, and her crew, passengers and cargo fever arrived at their destination, But that is another story.
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