To the Editor of the "Norra-Cama Datty News."
Smr,—With reference to the report in your valued paper of the 15th instant, No. 17,696, in regard to the proceedings which took place at the Mixed Court on_the 14th instant, about Russian Vo!- untoer Fleet ships, under which heading your report appears, i may draw your attention to the fact that this article gives a misleading impression on two points which I will thank you to correct in your issue of to-morrow's date—i.e.
1. Mr. Elleder, as was declared in Court by his counsel, appeared in the Court as representing the Chita Government, from whom he ask Feceived his appointment.
2. I appeared in the Court not as representing '"'The Merkuloff Government at Vladivostok," as stated in your paper, but on behalf of the only legal owners of the Russian Volunteer Fleet with its head office in Paris and Far Eastern Administration at presen' in Vladivostok.
I an, ete., W. G. Gopparp. Shanghai, Feb. 16.
White a quarrel was proceeding among a group of Chinese in an alleyway off Fearon Road on Sunday over, it is thought, the possession of some opium, one man was stabbed in three places and was taken to hospital in a serious condition.
Tue St. Valentine's Day tea dance at the Astor House on Tuesday afternoon, which was given under the auspices of the American Woman's Club, was a great success. The amount of receipts is not known but will probably approximate $1,000. Several cakes were auctioned and home-made candy was sold. Mr. Patstone and Mr. Cody assisted in entertainment by singing several songs.
Maxy Europeans in Shanghai have, during the course of the past few months, been brought, quite involuntarily on their part, in contact with an American negro, who has been ching out an existence as a street mendicant. The man, William Johnstone, generally called "Jack Johnstone," was charged at the Mixed Court on Thursday with begging in the vicinity of a Chinese street market; Accused, who treated the charge with levity, stated that he was going to the market to buy three coppers' worth of potatoes. He had no need to beg as there was a Russian in Court from whom he could borrow money. Mr. Jacobs, American Assesser, and Magistrate Loh took a more serious view of the case than accused and sentenced him to three months' imprisonment. The Russian, I Starikof by name, from whom Johnstone alleged he could borrow money, was in Court—but under compulsion—and was fined 35 for being drunk and disorderly in Range Road at 2 o'clock in the morning of the preceding day:
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.