Rolshvists, Headed by Mr. Elleder, March in Under Armed Guard and Remain Bolted and Barred against all Visitors: An Appreciation of M.
Grosse's Past Work M. Victor Grosse, formerly "Russian Consul-Generat in Shang-Thai, and for the past four years Joint Commissioner with the Chinese Envoy in charge of Russian Affairs in Shanghai, formally handed over the old Russian Consulate build' to the Chinese authorities on Thursday at] noon, and has left the building. "The Chevalier S. K, Chen and Mr. Chow Ting, acting on behalf of Mr. Hsu Yuan, took charge of the building, ' and the Bolshevist authorities, headed by M. Elleder, went in at 8 o'clock in the after:
The change over was carried out under a strong guard of European and. Sitch police, armed to the teeth, whilst such is their terror of White demonstration,—apparently, that the Bolsheviks immediately barred and bolted themselves. in and remained in the building guarded by armed Police for the rest of the day. 'AIL the doors were locked, and when " "North-China Daily News" representative yang the bell of the business office door, a suspicious, closely shaven head peered at him through the lattice of the which, promptly darted back.
was all that happened.
appeared to be two or three men on guard inside, but it sold to the Americans and moved into Bubbling Well Road. It was he who conceived the scheme of building the Russian Consulate, by the Garden Bridge, that we all know. An opportunity presented itself of buying the necessary land, for which, it is interesting to recall, the' comparatively small sum of Tls. 70,000 was paid, and in 1913 M. Grosse went on' leave to Russia and defended his building scheme the Duma (the old Russian parliament) so successfully that, his return to Shanghai in 1914, the work of building was begun, and was eventually finished in January, 1917, a month before the Tsar abdiented.
The Sino-Russian Breach.
In September, 1920, the Chinese Government broke off relationships with Prince Koudacheff, the then Russian Minister, and after several months of uncertainty _as to what was to happen to the Russians in Shanghai the agreement was concluded on March 1, 1921, whereby all Russian offal in Shanghai were entrusted to M. Grosse acting jointly with and on.
of the Chinese Commissioner Foreign Affairs. As will be remembered there have, since the conclusion of the Russo-Chines agreement, been many rumours that M. Grosse was quitting the
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