By Shanghai, Sept. 27.
An interesting economic survey of the Russian colony has been completed by Commander N. G. Tomin, Chairman of the National Com-miller. According to data collected, only 10 per cent. of the colony are well-to-do, while at the other extreme 20 per cent. are unemployed. Thus the other 70 per cent, the middle layer that in the Russian colony can be held equivalent to what the French call the "third state" takes in the overwhelming majority of Russian Shanghailanders.
Unemployment among Russians has tendency to grow, Commander Tomin reveals. The first impetus in this direction was given by the world economic depression, whose effects were first experienced in the Toeal labour front in 1992." The hectle your of 1997 gave a further jolt to the Russian colony, especially to that not inconsiderable number of its members who lived in Chapel and Nantao, It must be remembered, oles Commander Tomin, that in 'Shanghai, Russians do not live dependently but adapt' themselves to the city's foreign and Chinese life, between which circles they try, as were, to act as mediators and go-betweens, The "third estate," of course, caters also to itself and to that well-to-do part of the colony that finds its embodiment in Russian factories, shops, places of amusement, the medical world, ete. The events of last year reacted painfully on the whole colony. They reacted even on those who earn $500 to $00 a month, as they have been hard hit by the mercurial rise in prices of food, lodging and practically everything clse—especially if they have failles to provide for.
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