Lawyers make the interesting ob-Tation that there is a definite divorce season" in the Russian colony. Many wives spend the summer in summer-resorts where they meet strangers and foreigners, mix in different circles and come back to Shanghai with a new sense of values and a desire to make their summer idylls into something more concrete.
Lawyers, at any rate, assert that during the winter months the divorce graph takes the shape of a valley.
Most divorces, however, are carried out with the mutual consent of both parties; lawyers' offices are thus seldom the scenes of violent and tearful dramas. On the contrary the husband and wife are not only exaggeratedly polite but often exchange good-natured witticisms. There was one rather piquant case when immediately after the divorce decree was signed one of the witnesses signified his desire to marry the ex-wife, whose ex-husband promptly agreed to act as witness. But all in all it is understandable why the press should be alarmed over the ease with which divorces are, with the help of the lawyers and the court, granted in the Russian colony.
Persistent reports circulating in the colony that orders will shortly be received from Paris making it simpler for Russians who have seen 5 years service in the local French Police or Municipality to obtain French citizenship.
Mr. B. V. Krivoss, who has a large estate in Northern Korea, has recently returned from a four month's absence. During his vacation in Korea Mr. Krivoss hunted boars and other wild animals. Mr. Krivoss-also spent some time in Japan.
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