Moscow wants particularly to get into their hands the churches located fat these railway settlements, where fat Toast three quarters of the residents are in railway employ and where there are no important Chinese officials to trouble about the activities of Russians so long they do not flaunt propaganda. In Harbin it is quite a different mi ter, for here there are more emigres than Soviet citizens, and the rail wayman do not play any conspicuous part in Church life. Hence any move on the part of Moscow can not meet with success, though it may spread a certain amount of discord among church people and the clergy, a matter Moscow may also be counting upon, for the more the discord among their enemies, the stronger they entrench themselves. The attcadance at all the Russian churches during the whole of Tent and especially the last weeks has increated noticeably as compared wit Former years. and each place of wor ship in Harbin can hardly hold the crowds which go to the services, including confession and Holy Com. munion. This may be for the rea son that the clergy no longer draw any stipend from the Railway or any other institution and hence are forced to visit their parishioners much mora frequently than heretofore in order to get their support Jand at the same time unlist that of others.
Tne Hangchow Art College has addressed a petition to the Nanking Government recommending that certain temples should be transformed into art museums, and that. the gods, offering utensils, and tablets should be kept in perpetuity for cohibition, seized, while six victims held for The gang Fersed.
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