To the Editor of the "Norra-Cuina Dairy News."
Sir,—Your correspondent "Open Minded" appears really to be the only one of your correspondents ject who is worthy of the name heretofore writing on the same sub-which he appends to his article.
Your former—correspondents denied my charges without taking the trouble to inquire into the facts of the situation and they did this before the December Report of the Commissioner of Police was published in the Municipal Gazette. Furthermore, they did not expect that your organ would support my contentions to a certain extent in the way you did. Since then these same people are no doubt aware of the fact that nearly all of my contentions are true and that I am able to support them with facts and actual figures. They appear naturally at this time to be silent on the subject and it is best they do. It is a discussion which is best left alone and allowed to die natural death or at least become dormant for the time being.
Your correspondents evidently assume that my contentions are wrong because they only judge of the amount of Russians who are brought up nearly every day now sis the International Mixed Court and compare these cases with the approximate total population of the Russians residing in Shanghai, which is a mistake. They should take into consideration the fact that there are perfiaps twice as many cases as those which appear in the International Mixed Court which are not brought up at all for different reasons too numerous to mention. Your correspondents are no doubt aware of the many cases which are settled out of court by aggrieved parties in order to avoid undue publicity, scandal, ridicule, ete., and on other grounds of a private nature. They have to suffer loss while the culprits go scot free.
I have made sweeping assertions but they are all true and I have nothing to apologize for. I am not the only one that has a real grievance against certain Russians residing in the Settlement for there are many others in the same position as myself. It is not a question as to whether one knows Russia and its people either to a limited extent
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