It has been frequently remarked that the "Letters from China"; written by Comrade D. Zaslavsky, chief of the local Tass news servic which appear regularly in "Izvestia,* '*Pravda" and many other official Soviet publications, show up this community, its leading men, the Kuomintang chiefs, and particularly the."North-China Daily News" in light which makes them diverting reading and that we ought to give the public an occasional sample of what the Reds want their folk at] home to think about us. These ofers are invariably uncomplimentsry enough and distort facts suflcently to make them very am in'much the fashion that a warped amirrer gives us a misshapen and _grotesquie reflection of ourselves, but they are seldom worth the labour of translation or the space that is quired to do them full justice. 'The following effort from the "Izves! covers such a wide field, however, that it is a particularly illuminatin sample of Comrade Zaslavsky' work, 30 it is reproduced in full, except for a lengthy quotation from one of our own publications. It is dated from Shanghai, Septem-Der 15, and appeared in' Moscow early in October
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