As a city of easy and numerous divorces, Hono will have ta %=-"- to its laurels, A dangerous rival is developing in the Far East, and what makes the whole thing so incongruous the fact that this rival does not even have a name but is popularly known as the Russian colony of Shanghai.
This discovery was recently made by Mr. A, J. Slobodchikoff, barrister atlas, who reveals that as Chinese laws permit divorces in the office of a barrister-atlas and as Russians fare also divorced in the Orthodox Church, nearly as many men and women are being annually "renovate ed" in Russian Shanghai as in Reno years.
New Journal the occasion of the Seth anniversary of the founding of the Tomsk Imperial University, the graduates of this institution living in Shanghai have issued a special journal: "The Siberian Day." In addition to re~ miniscences and photographs of the University and of its most famous deans professors, space is also devoted to the history of the Siberian autonomous movement which was crowned in 1918 by the opening of the Siberian Parliament and the for-motion of an independent Siberian government that in the November of 1018 gave its power over to Admiral Koltchak. At present two former members of this government are living in Shanghai—Mr. V. 1. Moravsky and Prof. M. P. Golovachev, who
Affairs. The flag of autonomous headed Ministry for Foreign Siberia was formed in white colour with a green background, this symbolically depicting Siberia's snow and the green of its Ar-trees.
Mrs. O. V. Lembich, publisher of the "Shanghai Zaria," has left for Unzen with her daughter, where she will spend the remainder of the summer. Mrs. Lembich proposes to return to Shanghai in the middle of September.
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