If some day a historian will devote a book to the trials of foreigners in China during the present undeclared war, the epic of Russian holidaymakers who were brought here first in the Rosalie Moller from Tsingtao, then on the s. Leesang from Chefoo and Dairen, will unquestionably take up several thrilling pages. These trips to bring back distracted souls evoked many echoes in the form of letters to the Editors of local Russian newspapers, continuing to be printed io this day. Now, post-factum; a battle is being waged around the question making public the ae counts of the Rosalie Moller. The friends of Gen. Jh. Gleboff, twelve in number, have published a letter in which they stated that the Chairman of the Sore deserves the warmest appreciation "for the energy and presence of min? ^—5 by him in bringing the holiday-makers from Tsingtao," and that "he is absolutely "under no obligation to give account of the matter either to public organization who shared with him no risk or responsibility, or to the passengers who paid their money for tickets and not for any charitable cause." In the words of the authors of this letter, the net balance from the trip amounted to $1,650.80, and this money must remain at the disposal of the President of the Sore. The other point of view insists that accounts of this trip must be published, as were the accounts of the trips of s. Leesang from Chefoo and Dairen.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.