我刊于今年第四期发表张苏东同志撰写的《炮击“紫石英”号》一文后,《报刊文摘》于8月17日摘要转载了该文。现宁夏一读者对其中一些细节提出不同佐证,我们刊登如下。同时,我们还约请原海军指挥学院研究员王彦同志撰写《中英双方谁先开炮之我见》,记述他曾采访该事件的一些情况。 I published it in the fourth issue of this year, Comrade Zhang Su Dong wrote “Shelling” Amethyst, “a” article, “Press Digest” in August 17 summary reproduced the article. Now a reader in Ningxia put forward different evidences for some of these details. We publish the following. At the same time, we also asked Comrade Wang Yan, a researcher at the former Naval Command Academy, to write “My Opinion on Who Launched the Chinese and British Fire Artistes” and describe some of his interviews with the incident.