By "Smox"
'Shanghat, Dec. 27. +All over the world, at all~times of the year, people ' of all "races sigh for their homeland, Does this nostalgia gnaw, too, at the hearts of Russians in Shanghai? A question of this sort can be answered only' by a shrug of the shoulders: the reply is self-evident, Russians love their country no less than do other nationalities; but in emigration they Tave ther with a specialty" poignant, 'n_almost painful lov Russians have no -"Walling Wall," and prefer not to be extravagant in speaking of their love for Rus-sla—especially before strangers. This characteristic was deftly underlined by Mr, Peter Fleming in his remarkable book "News from Tartary" when he gave a picture of a Rus-lan' colonel who for many" years} lived in the wilds of Western China ear the Mongolian frontier, alone but foe a Chinese servant; but whose thoughts were always there, back in Russia where his family." and. all that was dear to. him' were lett Uehind. Yet by not a single word did he' ever disclose his thoughts to anyone, Long before the Revolution, when'no one in Russia would be: Yieve it possible that the time would come when 2,000,000 souls would flee the country' and be scattered all over the world, there was a song which enjoyed' great popularity. It led The Longing for Homeland." In teaving the homeland it is not possible, Russians well know, to take her slong on the soles of the shoes. Yet many Russian families still treasure, far from prying eyes, a pinch of the home sod, "In. hurried "Aight, when the most valuable documents "and costly heirlooms often escaped their memory, "they didn't forget 10 take with them a handful of common earth, Prom the above itis clear why 'Russians even those who have long since retired from polities and have become what is known as obyyateli "(men steeped inthe hustle and bustle of everyday fe) 'Il keep carefully' abreast of happening in their country.
Holiday Effect This separation from the homeland weighs especially heavily during big holidays. Then each one realizes with sudden clarity that around him covery thing is strangely different, not "like it used to. be, Russian Buster lends itself to reproduction in Shanghai. 'There are the Russian churches, and it is always. possible to bake kulfeht and coax along. the spirit of the holiday by' the simple Process of applying colours to eggs lat melodious chanting of number= Jess church-bells on Easter Week when with every bell pealing out in & different tone, music seems. to Moat richly over the whole city is, course, missed; but on the whole the rituals of Easter can be reoractod in Shanghai with some of the old spirit.
Not so Russian Christmas. The spirit of Russian Christmas, with its Russian firs and pines, its Russian snow-drifts which "often cover up whole cottages, its frost so. keen that sparrows and Jack-daws fall dond (0 earth while lee forms on the inside of windows—that spirit somehow cannot be recaptured. Only churches is the atmosphere old an familiar; the same ikons, the same candle, the same singing, the same Sparking vestments of the prices AM oxaety so it was from the dawn Of each one's memory, 'That is why Strano Tviniy' wing dha out witt find the Russian church fi wu" temples in foreign. stra
Hongkong, "Shameen and Besa torrid "Morocco end in many" cities Australlawany™ place, 1m. "fast, Where you wil find & hundred Rus New Volunteers 'The Russian Detachment of the French Police has taken into its ranks only 100 now volunteers, who fare now being given police' and millltary training. "They "are tome orarily quartered in' Rue Frelupt fand also in the police station in Avenue Foch. It! is planned 10 bulla regular barracks for the Whole Russian Detachment in the "near future—on the lines of those built for the Russian Regiment of the Settlement.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.