We trust that the sincerity of the "N.C. Daily News" as the champion of the rights of Russians in China is sufficiently well recognized to need no asseveration on our part. When the extraterritorial privileges of Russians were suspended, on Peking's breaking off diplomatic relations with Prince Koudacheff in the autumn of 1930, this paper did all that it could to arouse public attention to the injustice done to the Russians and the general danger of the thin end of the wedge; and although we failed in our attempt, we have in no way changed the opinions then expressed. It was, in particular, noted that the Russian community enjoyed a deserved reputation for orderly behaviour and that is as true now of the overwhelming majority.as it was, then. On the other hand, it cannot be denied -|that recent months have seen an influx of undesirables whom neither their fellow-countrymen nor anyone else wants in Shanghai. The statement of "Victim" that the efforts of other Russians are put forth to shield these misdemeanants from punishment, is his not ours. But in answer to to-day's letter from MIN. Balakshin and Heinann, we are not less friends to Russians in general because we call attention to the recent arrival of divers undesirables, and suggest that, for Russians' sake as well as other residents, the sooner they are got rid of the better.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.