the DAILY News."
Sir—Kindly give space in your esteemed paper to the following:
We despatched a special corre pondent to collect all possible information and to make inquiries in regard of the Russians arrested as pies" and kept at the Arsenal This morning, at 9 a.m. all the Russians have been released, thanks to the intervention of O.'C. the armoured train which arrived here yesterday.
This afternoon, several of these unlucky Russians called on us and told us a sad story of their hum tion, sufferings and tortures to which they have been subjected at the hands of the Chinese soldiers— their guard.
Your article in Notes and Comments of the 2nd appears to me te be neither quite fair to Miss Har-ison nov of much assistance to those who are striving to improve inclu trial conditions 'As far as Tam avcare ither Miss ike considers all Child Labour can be stopped with a stroke of the pen. 'The recom nenditivns of the Commissi Which are' surely the main subject Of this correspondence,—do not go Deyond the prohibition of the employment in factories and industries children under twelve at the end fof n period of four years.
The opposition of parents to which you refer ix a difficulty. which as een met in every country of the world both as regards child labour and education, In none of them has it insuperable. A study' of the report will show that the Commission gave due weight och to it and to the other difficulties ich you mention in your article.
The prohibition of the employment The regime et their minds one of the middle-age er in the dirty cells, given only three wwels of rice daily and insufficient quantity of water-—the Rus been kept in feet-fet since their arrest (in some nee 18th the han feuifs they had to wear from 6 p.m. to 8 oan—dail They all have been charged as "spice" for Marshal Chang Tso-lin, notwithstanding the fact that some fof them have been arrested in the French Concession, the Railway Station, ete, and that all of them are wearing the remnants of the Russian uniforms. evidence or proof has been riven to prove that they are guilty of espionage.
All their money, their merchandise (in one case fo the amount of $100) and what is the most import-fant—all their documents have been taken from them.
To compel the arrested to confess being spies, they have been sub-
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