The following is a transla: tion of a letter recently received from Mr. P. N. Jensen, senior member of the yacht Shanghai which is mak-ang her way homeward to Denmark. The tranquillity of the open spaces of the sea has conduced to much thinking and the outcome deserves to be read—and will be read with interest. oe Many thanks for the three parcels of the ''North-China Daily News" which I received on our arrival at Batavia. I notice that, as usual, the sea runs pretty high in the correspondence column and, that, this time, it is the poor Russians who are in for it. Certainly, the old rulers were great scoundrels, but are the present ones—Messrs. Lenin, Trotsky Co.—any the better? Is it not always so, that the brutal and reckless ones, without regard to which system they belong, get to the top? May one justly blame the Russian cadets that their parents were the creatures of a system
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