To the Editor of the '"Nommu-Cinxa Dairy News"
Si—When I opened my _paper this morning and read about how two skippers had each - independently sighted, a two-masted -"mystery cruiser" off the coast of Japan 1 was so concerned and agitated that the "sensation" created in Yokohama on receipt of the news could have: been nothing compared with the pandemonium that" reigned in my Foam as T jumped out of my bed, capsized my tea tray and its load all lover the floor and eagerly darted for my "Jane's" Imagine my relief when I discovered that there are Japanese cruisers in existence with two masts and that British designers seem to have copied their example and usually Atted our cruisers with two each, I also discovered that British cruisers are. suflciontiy seaworthy to proceed far from the British Isles and that they have been known to venture as far away as Far Eastern waters, Naughty skippers, frightening me js0 and pulling our legs like this, As "though you two professional seamen could' not tell 2 German cruiser at sight once you had made up your mind that what you were seeing was. a cruiser, "When last. saw British eub-' marines in Shanghai, sometime now, they were painted green remember rightly, and they were jeertainly large ches, too, Was. the captain' of the Kunishima Maru trying to excite us as well?
Shanghai, Nov, 21
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.