Notwithstanding the anger of Marshal Chang against leading So-ict Officials in China, Comrade Serebriakoff of the Commissariat of Communications, who has arrived here in connexion with questions concerning the C. E.R, was received by the Marshal in a very! friendly manner on his arrival at Mukden, and was subsequently invited toa banquet which the Marshal gave. Comrade Konetzoff, the Councillor of the Soviet Embassy a Tokyo who ix at Mukden on a visit, was also present though not the acting Consul, who is in Coventry as far as the Chinese authorities re concerned, Comrade Serebriakoff has now gone on to Peking, where he will meet Comrade Karahkan as well as high Chinese Officials.
According to the local Russian Papers Ataman Simionov has recent ly received from the Japanese Go-Vernment the equivalent of two million gold roubles, which were being taken care of by Japan and which belonged to the Tsarist Government. The release was effected after Simionov had agreed that the money would be placed at the dis-poral of the cause of the Grand Duke Nicolas Nikolaieviteh.
The Russian King of Figures, Arrago, is now in Harbin and apating at the Cinemas. Small in figure, nervous and jerky in movement Arrago's tremendous and imeomprehensible faculty of casting a hasty glance at a series of atithmetical calculations and immediately giving the solution, beyond comprehension, hence' his appellation of Lightning Calculator, and Living Arithmometer. As Professor Bekhtereft—the _psychis trio specialist, puts it "Arrago's talent goes beyond the limits of human understanding." Arrago denies the assumption that he calculates unconsciously and ascribes his pecular ability to exceptional visual mnemonic power. As to the processes. results, however, Arrago says that he himself cannot explain them. At-rage will not tour the Far East this time az he goes from here Girect to Petrograd and from thence to the principal cities in Europe.
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