Something over 5,000 unfinished cases in which Russians are involve ed are now pending in the courts and more than 200 prisoners are held by the Chinese pending settlement of criminal cases. Some little attention was attracted to this situation by the recent hunger strike among the prisoners and the Peking Government, fearing pubplicity, is said to have arranged to have the former Russian assessors clear up the cases pending, which will probably ameliorate conditions somewhat, but it is no pledge of future security and is small compensation for all which the Russian communities in Manchuria have suffered since the Chinese took over their various institutions. What Chinese administration of these institutions has meant the writer now proposes to outline systematically, beginning with those in which the Chinese have been least obnoxious and working up to those, like the judiciary, in which they have been simply intolerable.
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