To the Bator of the "Nowti-Cumwa Dany News"
SmI, is not a matter of the slightest importance, but, with regard to W's letter in the correspondence column to-day, H. M.S, Swiftsure was not in the China Station at the outbreak of war. It Is possible that she may have been on the East Indies Station, in fact I think she was. H. M.S. Triumph was stationed at Hongkong as a tender to H. M. S. Tamar and was not considered sea-going unit. However, when war was declared, she was manned, as 'W. says, by crews of the River Gunboats and also had on board, if 1 remember rightly, some officers and men of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, then stationed at Hong-Kong, instead of Royal Marines. The Triumph took part in the attack on (Tsingtao and. subsequently went to the Dardanelles, where she was sunk, th Shanghai, Sept. 23.
K, Fawerrt,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.