More and more Russian youths that in the past left for Europe and a higher education are returning to Shanghai Among the latest to have arrived here were Mr, Kostevitch, a talented pianist whose recent concert received such a favourable reception, and' Dr. R. P. Gold, who has just graduated from the Bologna University in Italy. In that University, Dr. Gold states, there are several Russians, mostly from Harbin. Russians arrive in Italy with no knowledge of the language, but within the first year overcome all difficulties on thai Score. Italian professors are most attentive to the needs of students, and life in universities is cheap.
St} Dmitry's Day, which falls on November 8, will be celebrated in the Russian Commercial School, which through the work of Mr. B. M. Fedosieff now boasts a chapel In the morning a liturgy will be conducted by Bishop Juvenalius, and later Dr. D. I. Kazakoff, Chairman of the Orthodox Confraternity, will be formally felicitated on his Name': Day. A meeting to the memory of St. Dmitry will follow, including singing and speeches by pupils. A bali to be held in the evening will have programme of literary and vocal numbers.
The Russian Benevolent Society's Tag Day held on November 4 has yielded favourable results. Tag-sellers, mostly Boy Scouts, met with hardly a refusal and at the preliminary counting the sum of $2000 was recorded, The discussion around the lot of the lonely Shanghai girl, which has been terminated on the pages of the
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