To the Editor of the "NortH-Cuina Dany N
Sm.—In order not to make the pages of your hospitable journal a feld of political battle, I put aside sll arguments employed by Mr. Vsevoto Ivanov in his sterday's letter in these columns Sabotage." But there concerning a "publication which is issuing papers in Harbin, Tientsin and Shanghai" which cannot go without an answer on my part. It is evident that the newspapers implied are "The Zaria," which, as a matter of fact, have for the last four years been published in Harbin and Shanghai by different companies.
In regard to Mr. V. IvANOV's letter, the fact is not without interest that this same gentleman has over the length of fifteen years as from July 1920, contributed innumerable articles political and otherwise—to "The Harbin Zaria" Mr. V. lvawovs articles have over a period of ten years (1925-1935) appeared from time io time in the pages of "The Shanghai Zaria," and it is not yet two years, of which I have documentary proof, that an article of his was printed in "The Tientsin Zaria," dealing, by the way, with my own book "Life and Revolution,"
Thus, two suppositions are open, either Mr. V. Ivanov has for a period Of fifteen years carried on in the pages of this malicious publication "which is issuing papers in Harbin, Tientsin and Shanghai" that same fell work which he now so daringly unmasks, or his attempt to undermine "The Zaria's" reputation is totally unfounded.
L. V. AmNOLDOV, Editor, "The Shanghai Zaria."
Shanghai, Oct. 14.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.