To the Editor of the "Norrs-Cuixa Dairy News."
Sir/—A number of refugees, Rus sians, Poles, ete., who belong presumably to the Orthodox Russian faith are sheltering in a building behind the Russian Church in North Honan Road. I know nothing of the Russian Church, but had occasion at the request of a friend to visit one of these refugees. They are living, fearfully overcrowded, in what appear to be the servants' quarters of a fairly large house, probably built as a priest's residence.
The refugees rent these tiny little rooms for a small sum, all of them are in very ramshackle condition, and the priest lives in one of them no better nor bigger than the rest, just the kind of room our Chinese servants live in.
The curious part of the whole
furnished, is kept unused and locked affair is that the big house, empty, up. No one is allowed to live in any part of it, even the priest, this T understand but do not know, command of some church dignitary in Peking. The Russian Consulate here is aware of this.
I am, eto., Shanghai, March 10.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.