To the Editor of the "Mobrh-Cwxn Daly NEWS"
Sim—In your correspondence col-umu of Mar. 4 there was printed a letter for an Englishman under pseudonym Accuracy. P Leaving on the author's conscience the description of the case of a Japanese craft falling into the Whangpoo river, I confess that being a Russian, I was extremely surprised io learn of a Russian custom of beating wives twice a month regularly.
In spite of a large Russian community in Shanghai, ACCURACY evidently has never been in any Russian, family home, where he could make acquaintance with the customs which he pretends to know.
Not knowing the reasons of AccURAcY's strange attack against Russians and women generally I believe that Accuracy had had as wife a Russian woman, who left him for the reason of his ignorance and barbarian understanding of home life.
Especially to complete the knowledge of Accuracy I beg to inform him that Russians eat neither raw ineat/and candles nor use polar bears instead of horses.
Besides, I have heard that beating of pupils in some. European colleges still is considered as a normal punishment, but it was strictly prohibited many years ago in Russian schools as a barbarian: and useless method of education,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.