To the Editor of the "Norta-Cuina Dairy News."
Sir,—On two occasions recently you have lent the columns of your esteemed periodical to a correspondent who signs "A Victim" and who indulges in a most infamous and slanderous attack upon the good name and honour of the whole Russian community of this settlement. His astounding allegations are that while 10 per cent. of the local Russians are. crooks and iminals of the worst kind, the re-ing 90 per cent. are nothing more than their accomplices and protectors who shield them and help them to escape, however atrocious their crimes may be.
The Russian Chamber of Commerce cannot leave this kind of correspondence unnoticed and consider it their duty to express their utter disgust and most emphatically protest against this groundless accusation and the gross insult thrown thereby in the face of their compatriots. The local Russian community comprises, as you know, many commercial firms, as well as social and other institutions of long years standing and unimpaired reputation. Among the numerous respectable Russian residents there are representatives of different esteemed professions and many honest workers. Besides, during these last years the community has been increased by quite a number of Russians of a high social and intellectual standard who driven from their homes by the Russian
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