Stock prices today moved irregularly higher in a dull trading session. Pre-holiday considerations held the list within a quiet, narrow range, and traders displayed little disposition to extend their commitments. Favourable news included an almost general belief that Mr. Harry L. Hopkins, in his speech on Friday, will include reassurances to business.
Unfavourable news consisted of uneasiness over the foreign political leader of the "Russian National Revolutionary Party of Fascists," whose residence is an improyized fortress in the Thomson, Connecticut, estate of his wife, told Russian newspapermen—not without humour—of an article about him written in the Soviet magazine "The Crocodile" by the well-known Arcady Bukhov. The article was entitled "The Career of a Scoundrel" and told how Mr. Vonsiatsky was picked up half-starving off the streets of Paris by a wealthy American woman tourist riding past in her luxurious Rolls-Royce. This, it was alleged, marked the advent of his notoriety. Soon after he presented himself to the late Grand Duke Kirili Vladimirovitch, known in life as the Keeper of the Russian Throne, only to find, the paper continues, that all the portfolios in the government that would be formed after the restoration of monarchy in Russia had been reserved and that he could get nothing but the portfolio for the Ministry of the Navy. Mr. Vonsiatsky's party is well-known in the U.S.S.R. This has been affirmed a further time by the Greek Archimandrite, Father Euge-ulus, who was incarcerated on Solovky Island and who was released only as a Greek subject, From the prisoners of this famous concentration camp he heard of the existence of Vonsiatsky's Fascist Party. This party, its leader states, finds it easiest to work in the United States, while in France, Germany and Manchoukuo it is banned by the authorities. It should be remembered that Harbin has its own Fascist organization headed by Mr. Rodzaevsky and having no connection with the activities of Mr. Vonsiatsky.
Kalgan As a Resort With the approach of summer Russians in general and doctors in particular are beginning to think of Kalgan as a summer resort, and also as a health-resort for the weak-lunged. In this connection it is interesting to note that Kalgan has a sanatorium run by Dr. Kuzmin. In winter, Dr Kuzmin, states, better results are secured among patients, who follow a strict medicinal regime and in spite of the frosty nights often sleep with open windows. Their weight quickly increases, as Kalgan has perhaps the best climate for those with tuberculosis in all China. Communication with Peiping has been restored, and three trains run daily between the two cities, taking seven hours from end to end. There are many automobiles in Kalgan today. Russians living there permanently are not very numerous, but all are engaged in businesses-of their own and have no cause for complaint. The air is dry and pure, and it is a matter of wonder that Kalgan has not been more popular in the past.
Mr. I. L Bushkoff, who died last week, was at one time the head of one of the oldest and largest forestry concerns in Russia. Mr. Bushkoff himself owned huge tracts of forest and many estates in the Viatka and Perm provinces. His house—almost a castle—in his "Buinoie" estate was built by the Italian architect of late 18th century fame, Rastrelli. In addition the di owned a number of industrial concerns, and, being a keen sportsman and lover of horses, had large stables in Tursk. In emigration Mr. Bushkoff often contributed articles on forestry to speci lized American magazines, having enormous practical and theoretical knowledge in this field.
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