By "Smov"
Shanghai, Oct, "16.
War in Europe has been awaited for no less than ten years, and during that time thousands of books in var~ vious languages have been written by authors, military specialists and even novelists hazarding where and how the war will start, It can hardly bbe called a mistake to say that in 90 per cent, of the cases the war, when it came, refuted these prognosticatong, But working modestly Shanghai os Night Editor of "The Shanghai Zaria" is a Russian journalisl, Mr, J. Lovich, who made a number of amazingly accurate predictions in a novel entitled "Whither Russia?" published in Harbin as far back as in the beginning of 1992, It must be added that this book has ready created a sensation, as a few weeks before, M. Paul Doumer, Prest~ dent of France, was assassinated in Paris on May 7 by Gorgulov, this murder was predicted in the book. The book was immediately noted internationally. The Soviet Dress wrote about it, it figured in court during Gorgulov's trial, it was trans~ lated into the French, Spanish and other languages.
Tu. connection with the war, Mr. Lovich predicted—soven years ago—that Germany and the Soviet Union would sign a kind of military alliance. 'A German general figuring in the hovel says, on page 112 of the book: "Our union is unstable, we dare not openly risk a war side by side with the Bolsheviks, but this union will bring us victory. Hasn't history Known other unnatural unions? We realize that this alliance is dangerous for us, as our present ally bids fa to become our fulure enemy. But, asks the German general, "will we prove strong enough if, with the aim world-revolution before them, the bolsheviks will later throw them= selves against us?"—and answers that the nationally disciplined German people are sufficiently mighty and United to turn back the madmen of Moscow. "Our strength," he continues, "Wes not only In our patriotism, But also in the inner weaknesses of the Soviets, The Red Army will share the spoils with us."
End of Russia On pages 122 and 128 Mr, Lovich—we repeat, seven yea described how "Soviet troops crossed the bord into Poland. Driving frontier regi ments in front of them, they occupied Vilna in the north and Lutzke in th south, and swept on towards Liublin Lemberg." All this happened last month, exactly as the Russian author wrote in Harbin, in the beginning of the year 1032, His intuition is now all the more. revealed, as he disagreed with the popular conception of other writers—that larger cities will, on the declaration of war, be immediately subjected to. withering air-raids, German submarines played an exactly similar role in the book fas they have played during the past several weeks.
The book also deals with the Soviet campaign against Indi 'Moscow establishes contact with the Indian Nationalists, and to depose British rule in India sends troops me cluding Kirgheses, -Khokandians, Bokhariots, Khivans, Tartars and other border tribes. 'The author also describes the' Soviet tack on Rumania, and devotes large space to a detailed account of the Tengthy and involved campaign to bring the United States into the war.
"Whither Russia?" ends with the complete debacle of the grandiose Soviet adventure. Red banners over Russian armies are displaced by the national tricolour. Those interested in the book can read it in the Russian, French and Spanish languages. Tt has not been translated into English. Tu the bustle of newspaper work. the author of the book had himself almost forgotten the extraordinary pro-Phecles he had made, and it needed reader to point out to him that in Kis picture of the circumstances of the war he had not been far from the truth, A Pathetic Figure At one time the Far East—shortly after "the Russian revolution—had many first class Russian chefs, specialists in Russian gastronomy. Russians, as itis known, are fond of a good meal, and in addition to eminently Russian dishes the Russian cuisine has adopted much of French gas tronomy, and knows how to make English roastheet, beefsteak, various German and Hungarian dishes, etc., and in the manner of serving zakuska second to none. At one time the Far East had even three chets who used to work in Imperial palaces, fand one of them, Chief Vereschagin, voluntarily followed Tsar Nicholas 1 fand the Royal Family to exile in Tobolsk He was not murdered by the bolsheviks, and managed to dee across Siberia to Harbin and later Shanghai, from where he subsequent ly went to Join Grand Duke Nicolai Nicolaieviteh in the South of France, One of these "last of the Mohicans" of the Russian kitchen, Mr. Nicolai Iwanoviteh Osipot, passed away last week at the age of 68. Mr, Osipot worked for many years in' Siberia, where there were a great number of millionaires and where restaurants and hotels vied with one another as regards cuisine. In 191G ar. Osipott went to Harbin, and had a restaurant im the famed" Railway Club, also owning a number of wagon-restaurants and a restaurant in the popular summer-resort of Chalantun, In 1935 Mr. Osipoft arrived here with his family and worked among other places in the Jewish Club, while his last years were spent working in D.D's restaurants.
A tragic story is told by Russian newspapers of a Mr. Ivan Sterekhov who, in his tiny room on Route de Soyies, is consciously dying of hunger, refusing food offered him by neigh-hours, and asking only that he be left alone. For eight days. Mr, Sterekhov has taken nothing but water. He says that he is tired of life, that he nas been dogged by poverty for many years and that he sees no promise in the future. Visited by a reporter of "The Shanghai Zaria," he said that before the revolution he worked in the munitions factory at Tzhevsk, then became a soldier and was wounded in the Civil War. He lived 13 years in Harbin, two in Tientsin and one and a half years in Kalgan, where help was given him, although the city has only a few Russian families. In Harbin Mr. Sterekhov traded in second-hand articles. In Shanghai he was employed li the construction of A building, but during night duty caught fever. His legs became swol-Ton, he had to sell his clothes, After that Mr, Sterekhov decided to die of hunger.
A Distinguished Doctor Representatives of the Ukrainian community held a meeting in which tu emigrant committee was elected, this committee being recognized by' local "authorities and empowered to' register local Ukrainians, Mr. G._ Butenko was unanimously elected head of the community, Mr, Butenko was one of those who organized union of all local Ukrainians, and. hho has done much in the interests Jot his compatriots, Mr. Vansoviteh was elected chairman of the trolling commission, Dr, Alexandre Civray, who passed away last week, belonged to that folder generation of Russian doctors jin Shanghat whose number comfort ably exceeds a hundred, The late Dr. Civray was known "in the re~ search field, He was born in 1875; In Samara on the Volga, and after graduating—from middle school entered the medical faculty of the Imperial University of Kazan, From the year 1898 he was on government work, first as a village doctor, Th 1902 he' was invited into university and became assistant lecturer fon pathological anatomy, working under Prof, Lubimoff, 'The late Dr. Civray worked seven years in the university, and tater, in the Medical 'Academy of St. Petersburg, defend-oda dissertation for the' highest, phase of M, A. for medicine, One of those who recognized Dr. Civray as worthy of this sciontife degree was the world famous. physiologist Prof. Twan Pavlov. After this Dr, Civray was appointed head physician with the military forces in Central Asia, and in 1912 took part in the fight against a terrible epidemic of the hubonle plague. In 1914 he was appointed to a corps of border guards men in Manchuria, but with the outbreak of the World War he left for the front, After his return from the German front he "was invited act as a medical adviser to. the Board of Directors of the Chinese Eastern Railway. In Dr, Civray arrived in Shanghai and quickly built up a wide ° praetlee, working at it to his death, School Course A course in Latin has been opened in the Russian School on Avenue Petain, 'The course—a voluntary one—is. spread over a length of two years, and students will be taught jetimology, syntax, and will be able} to make Simple translations, Instruc-lions will be given by the' school's Principal, Prot, UP, Pokrovsky, Pupils hive shown great interest in this new course, and many have joined it already, "Last Sunday, on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the birth of the famous Russian pact Mikhail Lermontov, a special commemoration service was held in the School, Lermontov is known as the second-greatest Rus sian poet after Pushkin, to whom Russians in Shanghai Rave erected a monument, It is interesting to note that Lermontov, who was an officer and fought in the Caucasus, was of 'Scottish origin, Returning from Tsingtao the well-known violinist Mr, Evsei Onshik says that he was charmed by that summer resort, Having spent_many years in Europe he has' lived in all the famous summer resorts from Moly to the Baltic countries, and is of the opinion that the Riviera of
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