To the Editor of the "Nowru-Cuixa Dary News"
Sm—In your issue of May 18, on the Book Page, there appears a' review of a book by Miles Vaughn. I was much surprised to. read of "an alleged incident between Mr. Vaughan fand'an unnamed Britith newspaper correspondent at Wanhsien—at least, from the text of the passage quoted, I presume that the incident is alleged to have occurred at Wanhsien.
was myself a resident of Wanhsien for nearly a year before the so-called bombardment of September, 1926, to which Mr. Vaughn apparent ly meant to refer. T was present during the incident and did not leave Wanhsien until several months Jater, yet I take leave to doubt that either Mr. Vaughn of the British newspaper man visited Wanhsien during that period. I believe that Tam on safe ground in asserting that no foreign newspaper man was present, either on the ships or ashore, at Wanhsien on September 5, 1926.
T met Mr. Vatighn myself in Peking two months after my departure from Wanhsien, and remember discussing the affair with him, but Tam quite positive that he did' not mention any Visit to Wanhsien during that conversation, which was quite a long one. This would appear to be a sur-1 omission since he knew that come direct from there.
Possibly T have misread the paragraph concerned, Tsingtao, June 8.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.