Goes into Armaments With Canada supplying 86.5 per cent. of the world's consumption of nickel, it is interesting to note that practically 90 per cent. of this metal is today used for commercial purposes and only ten per cent. can be traced to the use, in one form or another, in No sooner were the honours to the Italians concluded, than, on May 1. commenced the manifestations of the local Russian population—or, to be more exact, of Russian emigrants; for this was Anti-Comintern Day. The local Emigrants' Committee decided upon this date for two reasons. Firstly, this year marks the 325th anniversary of the end of civil war in Russia and the calling to the throne of the Romanoff Dynasty; and, secondly, May 1 was this.year the first Sunday after Russian Easter.
Requiem services in memory of the Tsars and Emperors of the House of Romanoff were held in all Orthodox Churches, as well as services for those Russians who. throughout these 325 years gave their life for their country.
After the services' conclusion, processions headed by -priests carrying crosses and church banners, streamed out of the churches, meeting concurrently—according to a special plan—at the Cathedral Square. Here the head of the clergy, Archbishop Melety, conducted a prayer in which everyone participated. Then Mr. Rodzayevsky the head of local emigres, and other personages—including representatives of Japanese authorities—made speeches appropriate to the occasion, these speeches being transmitted by loudspeakers. A film was taken with the aim of later showing it in centres of Russian emigration in other parts of 3 the world, In Russian schools and associations the following week will be devoted to principal events in' the history of Russia, and on May 8 emigrants w gather at a patriotic meeting and concert The Emigrants' Committee is publishing am album containing the portraits of Russian tulers, from Tsar Mihail Fedoroviteh to the heir to the Russian throne murdered in 1918 Grand Duke Alexei Nicolaievitch.
On Anti-Comintern Day delegates visited the Japanese, German and Italian Consulates "to express gratitude on behalf of the White Russians for their anti-Communist crusade."
Soya Bean. Buyers Few armaments. The general manager of the Canadian conipany controlling the production of nickel in the Dominion stated, in his presidential address at Toronto recenti% that approximately C.$18,7550,000 had been expended in the past twenty years in research, development and publicity to create peace-time uses for nickel Whereas prior to and during-the Great War, the greatest part of the world's nickel production was used in armament, he said, today the converse was true and all but a small part of the world's nickel is absorbed by industry for a multitude of peace-time uses.
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