In the charge book of the police station handling the affair, and on the charge sheet the description "Russian Jew" undoubtedly appears, given by the accused in answer to the usual formal questions. "The porter "covering" the First Special District Court obtained his information as to the defendants' names, from the charge sheet, and, quite properly incorporated the same in his Feport. The whole process is purely automatic and wholly impartial The allegations of discrimination made against this paper naturally fall to the ground, as they must do fu view of the sympathetic attitude this journal towards the Jews and their many problems. But critics have expressed the desire that when Jews—self-stated as such—get into trouble it is the duty of the news: apers to suppress the fact of their Face. That is in effect a request that the discrimination of which they were ready to complain when they believed it was against them, should be exercised in. their favour, To grant the request in this. instance would mean either that the same practice should be extended to. defendants of all nationalities—which is impossible when the fact of a trial taking place in a consular Court indicates the nationality of the defendant—or a departure from impartiality which neither the Jews nor any other race have the right to expect. The whole question seems to have arisen from a. hyper-sensitiveness and a failure to appreciate the fact that all peoples have their bad cases, and, that being recognized, it is dim cult to sec what harm there in publishing whatever identifeation an accused may care to give the police. They can, of course, avoid any such unpleasantness, either by not getting into trouble, or confining their statements as to nationality to the contents of their past-ports.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.