Act on Soviet Request ing that, they were acting 8 the Soviet repre-hold memorial services on Nove!
for the victims of the revolution in' Petrograd]
This information was received here on Nov. 12 by. loca rs and officials of among whom wulled. intense consterna the services have been held)
jin and other Chinese cities 22 years without mole mn. In Harbin, especially, it pointed out, there are scores of white Russian families who lost close friends and relatives when! the= Communist Red Terror over= whelmed the former capital of the Empire in 1918, taking a toll thousands of lives, men, women and On the anniversary of the outbreak, it. has been the custom of the Russian community each year to assemble in the Orthodox Churches and offer up prayers for however, the informed Russian priests 3 that Mr, A. Orloff, the Bolshevik representative Jat Harbin, objected vigorously the ceremony being held and therefor it had been decided to close all jan churches on that day. De.
Rassian churches to see that the der was obeyed.
On the same date, however, the lcommenist members of the Harbia {Russian Community, most of whom fare employees of Soviet agencies here, held series of dances and Jenteitainments to commemorate the outbreak of the Red. Revolution jet Buildings. and a Red flags were.
Parade marched through the streets, number of the demonstrators Throwing. stones and mud at one of the closed churches which append to be on the route taken. The white Russian community Harbin num-vers many thousands, all of whom are refugees from the Communist-Government, while the Soviet us: sians scarcely total "several. un: dred, 5 Thyough the same sephetentative, aig Soviet government has bees} endeavouring (o-induce the Chinese!
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