Brief cablegrams, referred to above, which passed between Dr. Smith and Dr. Ament, and were published on February 20th:
Ament, Peking: Reported December 24 your collecting thirteen times actual losses; using for propagating the Gospel. Are these statements true? Cable specific answer.
Smith.
Statement untrue. Collected 1-3 for church expenses, additional actual damages; now supporting widows and orphans. Publication thirteen times blunder cable. All collections received approval Chinese officials, who are urging further settlements same line.
Ament.
Only two questions are asked; “specific” answers required; no perilous wanderings among the other details of the unhappy dispatch desired.
EXHIBIT F
Letter from Dr. Smith to me, dated March 8th. The italics are mine; they tag inaccuracies of statement:
Permit me to call your attention to the marked paragraphs in the inclosed papers, and to ask you to note their relation to the two conditions named in your letter to the New York Tribune of February 15th.
The first is Dr. Ament’s denial of the truth of the dispatch in the New York “Sun,” of December 24th, on which your criticisms of him in the North American Review of February were founded. The second is a correction by the “Sun’s” special correspondent in Peking of the dispatch printed in the Sun of December 24th.