To the Editor of the "NontH-CHina Dairy News" appearing in your Instant under the Mystery "Man of, Portugal—Col, [Sarmento de Beires," will you allow "to correct a few misstatements Which have crept therein, Tu the first place the flight over the Atlantic from Lisbon to Rio Janeiro was not' effected by. Col. Beires, but by the two naval oticers, Sacadura Cabral and Gage Coutinho, the first of whom met his death when bringing back on the wing a hydro plane which had been acquired by the Portuguese Government Holland.
Col. Sarmento de Belres, together with Brita Pais (both atthe time simple Lieutenants of Infantry) made the flight' Lisbon-Macao in 1024: Shanghai, if better appreciation had been meted out to the merit for the daring raid so snee Fully. carried out, would not have s0 soon forgotten them, as they were the guests of the local Portuguese community during. their stay of several days in our midst.
But, unfortunately for the small for others, a thick veil is always drawn on. their daring exploits, while paltry flights made by big brothers, even when those are only across country, or merely to Manila are enough to fill columns, and columns of the newspapers. What the use of quarrelling over tufting: levants, westece pea?
Shanghai, Sept. 5.
Jone DA Rosa.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.