The Rosta News Agency, the mouthpiece of the Chita Government, is indignant at the way reuter treats Russia. When one news agency reports a state of suffering and death and starvation in the country, the other responds with pictures of a Very different: kind, bounteous harvests, industries reviving, and international trade on the upgrade. And then Rosta wishes that Reuter would stop its propaganda against Russia. Now it is possible for Reuter to make mistakes about Russia, in fact it would be a miracle if it did not, for anything like accuracy about that country is not to be in these days. Mistakes, however, do not constitute propaganda. Reuter has quoted the source of certain of its statements, in this case the and the Rosta agency fails to find it in any of the numbers examined. Probably not, so' far, because the number of the Tavestia"' perused at Helsingfors last week is hardly likely to be in China ea soon. And upon the general question of accuracy, our Russian friends may be reminded of the vivid report of celebrations: at Vladivostok which were reported lately at Peking and which subsequent investigations proved were not.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.