The Times of Wednesday published from its Shanghai correspondent an
account of the so-called bombardment at Wanhsien. It will be remembered that at Geneva the Chinese representative denounced before the League the alleged barbarity of the 13ritish 'naval officers who it said to have killed hundreds of civilians and virty to have destroyed the town. Mr.- D. H. Davies, however, who was an eye-witness of what happened, says that the Chinese troops opened fire upon the British ships and t when the British replied they were careful not to fi indiscriminately. They aimed only at soldiers and „ emplacementa. As an example of their Care, Mr. Da' says that when a number of Chinese troops were retro by way of a mud village outside the town the gun- fired all round the village but never into it. He adds that anyone passing up the river would notice very amage to Wanhsien. The Chinese_ propagandists have vidently been particularly hard at work. Those who lieve that British naval officers are capable of deliberate arbarity would believe anything.
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