At a meeting held in the Jewish Club to elect the new Committee Mr. M. S. Bloch was made President, Mr. G. M. Klebanoff, vice-President, Mr. J. L. Brick the Chairman of the Financial Committee, Mr. Podolsky, chairman of the ent and Catering Committee, Mr. Kagan, Honorary Treasurer and Mr. Feinlang, Young Russian engineers and architects who have graduated from the Harbin Polytechnical Institute have of recent years been actively engaged in the construction of the better class of buildings in this city. Nearly all apartment houses vieing in size and comfort have been built with the assistance of young Russians who studied in Harbin under Russian professors. Interested more in their work than in large profits, and content to start with the most lowly duties, Russian architects quickly earn the attention of their superiors with their knowledge and energy advance in their work with lau rapidity.
It has already been noted in these columns that Archbishop Nestor, who well-known in Shanghai and in Harbin, has founded an Orthodox Mission in Ceylon. it Naphanail, who is also well-known in Russian emigration, and who is the son of the former Minister of Education, Mr. V. N. Lvov, has been put at the head of this new mission. Father Naphanail has been met with attention and friendliness by the Anglican clergy, which is all the more valuable as the natives at first evinced an ill-hidden antagonism, reasoning that being a Russian he must be a bolshevik and therefore an enemy of religion.
Archbishop Nestor was presented with a plot of land for the church, but for a long time money was lack-Br. Father Naphanail, however, met an {ing to adorn tae church's interior.
aged and wealthy Singalese lady at we home of the new Anglican Bishop, pi Tupees to beautify the church of the Orthodox Mission. Colombo has a That Uncomfortable Legacy
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