The. local Russian papers have always a goadly amount' of sensational news to dish up to their' readers for "Harbin is a very Large toym containing over 100,000 Russians and double this number Chinese and growing rapidly. "Among, the recent suicides was that of an old Russian lawyer of 69 and a former Russian banker of.nearly the same age, who both hanged themselves, as' they were unable to stand any longer their strugntle for existence. "Both were in very poor circumstances and on the verge. of "starvation having lost their all through. the evolution and living here without Lith or kin, A young Russian woman, threw herself before a tra and was ext to pieces, apparently because she wax not satisfied with her home fe, She had made two former attempts to take hor Rife by swallowing some sort of poison, bat in each cate had been save, Her determina-tien to end things once and for all is shown by the fact that she had only come out of hospital a couple of days, where she had been nursed back to life after her second attempt at suicide when she threw. herself before the train. She was married woman and hey husband was a widower with a small Gaughter of whom she was very fond, but recently a young. sisterin-law of her husland's arrived on the acones, and trouble arose in the household.
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