To the Editor of the "Nontu-Cutxa Dat News."
Sin,—The warning given in your issue of 13th instant to intending travellers via this route, to secu! the doors of their cabins by meat other than those supplied is necesry, The account of the relevant incident as reported in" your issue of 10th instant was inaceuri in certain respects.
The Department of Communica of the U.S.S. R. had allocated the particular cabin which was entered to the writer and his wife for their journey frum Moscow to Manchou li, After the robbery it found that the safety chain of the door had been tampered with, one steel link having been removed and a brass one substituted in preparation for what actually took place. This link was easily cut, silently and without filing and it was only fas the marauder was making his exit that the occupants awoke and the attempt to arrest him took place. That this was unsuccessful was due partly to the fact that he armed himself with a handy stepladder which he used most feffcetively and also to the fact that both the carriage attendants remained well under cover until the Jeulprit had jumped the train. The whole occurrence savoured so much of collusion that future travellers would be well advised to trust nobody on this section of the journey, and by all means secure their doors on the inside, including that of the lavatory between cabins if they do not know who are their neighbours.
'A "fence" may travel quite easily. as a fellow passenger from Moscow and get off at Omsk or Harbin, in which places the stolen goods are soon lost trace of and all communica-jons to Moscow on the subject will avail nothing.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.