To the Editor of the "Norru-Chuxa Daiwy News"
Sin—Evidently I was in error when 1 endorsed Me, Wright's statement that the recent cold snap in the North was without precedent. But will you allow me to point out that T neither said nor suggested that the winter of 1900-01 was exceptionally severe. "The only claim that 1 made was that, in all probabl adventure in which Mahon and 1 were asocialed was the only instance of two foreigners being marooned on the ice in the Gulf of Pechihi While 1 still believe that no Jel_can_ be cited, T note Teaderette this morning you tone incident which occurred in the Winter of 1893 which, by a slight stretch of the imagination, might be considered analogous. You mention that "wildfowl! were picked up, frozen but alive from the waters of the Whangpoo." To a charge that Mahon and I were a pair of geese T could only give However, my a former letter is more than. justified that it has elicited the very teresting and informative leaderette alluded to above.
Shanghai, Feb. 18.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.