"Word has been recently received here from Mr. V. A. Zasipkin, og artist equally well-known in foreign and Russian Shanghai, who left for Singapore recently. His name is becoming increasingly popular in that city, where he is now head of the Apollo Studio and member of the Art Club which is composed of the elite of Singapore's culture lovers.. He is kept constantly busy by his work, but "Zasipkin's Russian Parties" in which hot pelmeni, the fragrant borsch and the inevitable vodka are served up in disconcerting quantities, have, nevertheless, already gained A measure of notoriety.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.