THE NILE AT BOILING-P01NT.
ITo THE EDITOR ox THE "SPECTATOR."] SIL —I have just seen an article in the Spectator of May 2ith written by " An Old Resident in Egypt," in which he alludes to a student having been shot by a British officer close to the Salle Bieber in Bulac Street, Cairo. I am sure. your corre- spondent would not wish, especially at a time when attacks have been made unjustifiably against the soldiers in Egypt, to say anything which might lend colour to such attacks. I should therefore be glad if you would allow me to say that watched the procession on that occasion, when a man was shot- close to the Salle Metier, and was on the spot with a Govern- ment railway official within three minutes of the firing of the shot. I purposely went to see if I could do anything to stop any further shooting, and questioned some soldiers who saw the shot fired. It was fired by a Greek or Armenian civilian, and it was a labourer and not a student who was killed. I saw his body myself. May I take this opportunity of testifying, to the general splendid self-control shown by the troops-under exceptionally difficult circumstances P—I am, Sir, &e.,
C. T. Hoses, British Chaplain, Cairo.
Dykesfield, Burgh by Sands, Cumberland:
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