To the Editor of the "Nonrn-Cuiva Darey News."
Srr,—The article "The Chances of the Bear" which appeared in the "Daily Express" and was reproduced by you on the 24th ult., has no doubt boon read by countless readers. It has struck me that it, could not have been written with a serious intent or it has been purposely intended to create a misconception of Russian history in the Oriental mind.
If the writer of the article had made himself thoroughly acquainted with the military history of Russia from Peter the Great's ays till the present time, he could not but have found that everything is the contrary to what he has written. This is my reason for believing that either the writer has never studied Russian history or he purposely intended to mislead his readers by wuting such ups as these:—"On looking backwards through the pages of history for 200 years it is a remarkable
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