An advertisement published in the 'N.-C.D. News" of December 24 by Mr, L. Fred Patstone, general manager of the China Commercial Development Company, announcing his appointment as local agent of the Russian Volunteer Fleet, carries us another step in the famous dispute over the possession of this fleet.
4 The controversy, our readers will recall, is whether the fleet is to be controlled by the old original Board, which removed from Petrograd to Constantinople, after the downfall of Kerensky, and whose representative in Shanghai, Mr. Goddard, is well known; or by the Vladivostok Government, which claims to be the only successor of the united Russian Government and therefore the legal controller of the
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