General Diterieh's escape was mir-culeus, os only of few short hours before he was sent off with instruc ions. Making his way to IKlev, General Diterichs lived in hiding, even working as a porter at a railway station in order to escape recognition. "Here he was found by the representatives of the Czechoslovak ian Liberation Committes, and on the request of the recently-deceased President-Liberator T. Masaryk, beer me Commander of the Czechoslovakian. Division and: subsequently Chief of Staff to General Syrovoy, then Comnanider in Chief of the C2echoslovake-Jon forces in Russia, In 1918, Ge crat Dilerichs arrived in. Vladivostok with the Czechoslovakian Army, and toward the close of the year '101 Admiral "Koltchak appointed him chairman of a special committee for the inquest into the murder of the Imperial Family at Ekaterinburg.
spring of at Omsk, Diterichs was' appointed Chicf-of-the-General-Staff of Admiral Kollehak, and later became "the Commander of all the White Armies in. Siberia, In the beginning of the year 1920 hho made his way through the Transbaikalia to Harbin, where he led very simple and secluded life, In the besinning of 1922 a delegation from Vladivostok visited him, and hho was elected by the People's Assembly the Ruler (Voyevoda) of the Maritime Provinces.
Tu the beginning of 1923 he arrived in Shanghai and with the help of his French friends was given the post of 4 cashier in the Banque Franco-Chinoise, which position' he retained to Mig death. At the same time he was the head of the Far Eastern Section of the Union of Ex-Oflleers the Russian Army and. Navy. For his military exploits the late General Diterichs held many medals of merit and all the highest orders of the Russian Empire, including the Cross of St. George, the Sword of St. George, the Star of St. Vladimir and many others. In addition he was a Commander of the Order of the Legion d'Honneur. The deceased survived by his widow and inter. presence of a very large attendance of mourners the remains of the late General Mihail C. Diterichs "were laid to rest in Lokawet Cemetery on Oct. 9.
'A Requiem service was conducted in the Church of the Russian Women's Opera, whose artists and directors are all "Russian, has with general approval begun its existence: and on October 14 the Russian Light Opera will hold its opening' night in. the Lyceum 'Theatres. Many' foreigners: have more than once expressed thole surprise that "in times' like these" Russians can hope to have aay monetary sticeess with the stage: but it must be kept in mind that all these fave beginnings were organized. at lime when none could suspect that [Shanghai would become the arena of fa stubborn military conflict, and that besides it is in "times like these" that the public wants, if only" in the: Jevening. to relax and forget the unpleasantness of the day. In Madrid the situation was worse than here. but cinemas and theatres never closed.
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