From the foregoing it will be ete why, when a requiem service for CChaliapin was held here on Thursday, the interior of the Russian Cathedral was filled with members of Russian artistic circles and representatives of the colony, The service was an especially "beautiful one, for taking part in it was a mass choir which included members of the Shanghat Opera and Operetta, Ansoxcst the passengers who left London for Shanghai on March 25 in the s. Chitral were—Mr, and Mrs. R. Fyfe, Mrs, RS, Duff, Mrs, T'S. Parry and child, "and 'Messrs. "M. E, Hewlett, DA. Campbell, D. Carter and' J. P, Coghill,
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