AMRITS AR.
[To THE EDITOR or TES " SPECTATOR.")
SIR,—I hope that you will permit me to thank Lord Sydenhara for his very illuminating reply to my letter of the 7th inst.. and also Mr Bushnell for his acceptance of the officially esti- mated figures, 15,000 to 20,000, instead of 4,000 as the number of rebels at the Jallianwalla Bagh, and may I say that I quite agree with him that these much higher numbers " immensely strengthen" his argument, for they mean that the rebels out- numbered General Dyer's riflemen by 300 to 400 to 1?
In reply to Mr. Porteous, may I suggest that 2 or 3 per cent. killed does not warrant accusations of "frightfulness"? The rest of his letter is fully replied to in the extract of the speech of the A.-G. in India before the Legislative Council of India (Appendix B of General Dyer's published statement, price 4d.) and also in par. 14 of that statement.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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