/To the Editor of the "Nonrit-Curxa Dany News"
Sin—In reply to Dawson's letter appearing in this morning's issue of your journal I wish to inform him that:—
L—The maximum draught of HES. Malaya ts Sts fect.
2-HMS. Rodney. and Nelson are attieships. incidentally' they. are tthe largest and most powerful bat Hesnips afloat and are the only hips of "any Navy mounting Battery of 16 sch guns, with the exception perhaps of shallow draft coastal monitors.
Shanghai, Oct. 12,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.