But one must not think that because Harbin has ceased being 9 Russian city it has stopped growing, expanding its limits and adding to its beauty. One is entitled to one's own opinions regarding Japanese methods colonization, but it must in all fairness be admitted that during the post five years Harbin has certainly taken on a smarter look. The suburbs have been subjected to a tidying-up process, traffic has been regulated, trid the city looks gayer by night, both Japanese and Chinese are not averse to iIumination, More order has been introduced, street, banditry has disappeared, and he who has not known the Harbin of old—the Russian Harbin—he who has not carried away with him pleasant memories of the Harbin that is dead, the madly gay city that existed' up to 1929, will probably receive the most favourable impres~ sion from a two of three weeks" visit here. He will see good hotels, excellent restaurants—Russian, Japanese ud Chinese—and -a night life that eaters to the most capricious taste.
The Nipponese, as one is ordered to call them here, are a nation that Uke to get to the bottom of things: here they want to see everything, study everything, be explained every= thing and the authorities are encouraging this laudable love of know= ledge.
Snow Minders Telephone Service For the past few days the Telephone Ca, which as far back as in the days of Mr. B, V. Ostroumof itched over to the automatic system, has been receiving many complaints from subscribers, chiefly those living in the Pristan' district, about the faulty telephone serv The manager of the apparatus department, Mr. Yashiro, gave a stalement to the press on the matter, pointing out that the main reason Tay" in the melting snow. which. amperied the worn-away insulation of old telephone wires and caused short circuits.
'A further cause is that the compony recently started laying Wires (o the Pristan district, aim that when a branch station be opened in New Town this line could be immediately included into the net- And in the third reason the fault lay with the residents themselves. In clearing the snow off the roofs, as it is always done at the end of winter, blocks of ice often fall on the wires' and cause damage.
'The Rev. Rozin, Prior of the Lutheran-Evangelist' Parish, left recently for Dairen. This trip has been necessitated by the transferring of the Dairen-parish from under the charge of the Tientsin pastor to that of Harbin. In addition the Tientsin pastor, the Rev. Puffert, shortly will leave" for Germany and the Rev. Rozin will visit Dairen from time to time in order to satisfy the spiritual needs of the German colony. On the evening of March 17, the Rev. Rozin conducted a special religious service to the memory of German soldiers who fell during the Great War.
Winter Sports Meeting leit' for in' the begin-'Ertzentzian Chinese Girl Rallies Demoralized Men Hankow, Apr. 1.
Immense interest has been aroused here by the publication of the diary, of Miss Hu Lan-chi, Chinese girl writer and leader of the Chinese Women's War Area Service Corps, concerning the activities of her corps behind the lines on the eastern front =the aren between Shanghai, Hang= chow, Nanking and Wuhu. and again, according to Miss Hu, her group of twenty unarmed, girls stopped demoralized retreating, Chinese soldiers and persuaded them to return to the front.
Their other activities included the urging of Chinese villagers. to return to wartern districts to assist! the Chinese army in the way of \wansportation of wounded, supplies and counter-espionage work. behind the front lines.
Miss Hu started work with only ten factory workers attached (o the 19th Army Corps, commanded by General Lo Cho-ying, whose troops defend Kiating, north-west of Shang hal. Now she has. girls
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