The officers of the Russian Cooperative Company, Ld. entertain-tained to tea at Shepherd's Cafe on Wednesday representatives of the Press and representative members of the Russian community. Colonel N Androushkevitch, president of the company, in describing his organization said that there were three classes of Russian refugees, th:: rich who were able to live on their own funds, the absolutely destitute, and the third and largest class those who belonged to some profession or trade who wished to make themselves self-supporting and to aid their needy countrymen. The membership of the company numbered about 500 and included artists, architects, doctors, nurses, cooks, chauffeurs, gardeners and many others, all of whom were very desirous of working.
Sweets were being manufactured for sale and might be obtained at th: office, 96 Szechuen Road, while a mechanical and electro-plating works had been opened at 450 Weeihaiwei Road where motor cars could be overhauled and various other branches of engineering carried on.
The President further stated that much incorrect data was being circulated about Russian affairs and that any official of the company would be glad at any time to furni ish facts on the present conditions which they were receiving from Der informants now in that coun-
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