To the Editor of the "Nontu-CiiNa Datty News."
Sm—In your issue of to-day you Publish a letter from your Kaifeng correspondent, reporting a fire at Chengchow and involving—our tame. Insofar as your - correspondent's statement is "very inaccurate, we feel constrained to re tify it The press-packing plant in que'- tion does not belong to our Coni-as, but we are merely associated of the company, but an. engineer Mr. J. Mackay is not the manager entrusted. with the "the "care machinery.
Tt is true that there was a re-grottable loss of life on the occasion to which your correspondent refers, [but the deaths at date are nineteen hai Jand not seventy, as indicated. Actually, on the date of your corres: pondent's letter, the deaths were substantially less than nineteen."- We shall be obliged if you will Publishsthis rectification.
ABNHOLD & Ca., Lrui
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.