To the Editor of the "Norrit-Catwa SUNDAY News Sin—I believe that your readers ought at Inst to be informed of the sometimes grotesque errors and mis. takes with regard to the spelling of names of places in Northern Manchuria, the seat of the C.B-R, eon-
Of course you will say that you get your news from Router's ccrrespondent at Harbin, but this is not much of an excuse: Have you no atlases of maps at Shanghai? Or postal guides, giving the rot anized spelling of the sometimes, most unpronounceable Mongolian ames?
To quote only x few instances We read about coal mines near a railway Dalainor. Please note that Ds called Hulun Nor. The station referred to is "Cha Lai no erh" (usually written in one word). We farther find spellings like Bukutu, Bokatu, Kukutu all in one number of your paper, whereas the official spelling is "Pokotu." Also Khingan instead of Hingan mountains. Another town now much in the limelight is usually misspelt in your paper, I refer to Habarovsk, which eight out of ten times is spelled Harbarovek. The powerful send-Jing station in this town is well known to listeners-in not only here, but equally well in Australia and California and is our only source of real information as"the Chinese station gives nothing but anti-foreign propaganda in the Russian language.
Trusting that this letter will be of some use to you, Tam, ete, C.J, Van pen KrAAuw.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.