Mrs. Zaitzeff Seeks to Support, Family Russian Easter, on May 2, was not! 'a Joyous occasion in the lives of Mrs. Zina Petrovna Zaltzofl, widow, and ther three children, one of whom is hospital. Most of Shanghai had forgotten the tragedy which occurred in the Foreign Y.MLC.A. in September, 1094, when" Afansy -M. Zaltzeft, watchman at $43 a month, hanged himself in e ground-floor room in the Dullding because he could not carry or in the face of the circumstances Which forced him and his family to live, on soup and bread, huddled in a small room in the French Con: cession.
The ° publicity given the case prompted a public subscription to help the family, but it was not realized by most of the contributors that the money was later placed, unfortunately, in a foreign bank which closed its doors the following spring—' 3 bank in which the savings of many Ttusslans in moderate circumstances had been deposited.
"And so Mrs. Zaltzeff (or Zaitsova, the "Russian style of naming 1 married woman) and her children were" again plunged into direst poverty. It was revealed yesterday that the family, except for one child who is in hospital, are now living in corner of Room 1, House 17, 097 Avenue Joffre. They are forced by ireumstances to share the modest Foam with another Russian family. Their income consists largely of what Mrs. Zaltzelt herself can scrape to-ether by working as a charwoman,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.