After a three months' automobile: tour of the United States, Dr. A. V. Marshad-Marsh, whose adult son and married daughter are at present live ing in America, has returned to, Shanghai. 'This was Dr. Marshad-Marsh's rst visit to that country, and he ts enthusiastic in his account of the trip. He says that Americans do not realize they should get their knees and Kiss the benevolent round on which they' live. Even poverty there is, from our standard, representative of a certain sufficiency. Dr. Marshad-Marsh's son left for America from Harbin with a student roup in 1020, and passed a specific. ally American training: he worked fas a wood-cutter and in a fish factory Alaska, and is now a sculptor specializing in. statuettes, Noted Legal Authority Dead is Joarned from Harbin that Mr. A. I. Tumanov, a. venerable bar-rissler-at-law, has died in that_ city at the age of 76. The deceased be-Tonged to the nobility of the Moscow district, and his father fell on the Meld of battle. defending Sebastopol, in the Crimean Wor. He was a graduate of the Moscow Imperial University of St. Petersburg and later studied Jaw in the University of Brussels, specializing in the legal Aspects. of the acquiring of land for the construction of railroads. He was fo great an authority on this matter that when working in Irkutsk was sent by Imperial Order to. the Caucasus 19 draw up an agreement between the government of All the Russias and a French company for the construction of railways. along the Black Seacoast. The late Mr. Tumanov's son has had a brilliant career as a famous bacteriologist and specialist on mara At the last meeting of the Russian Women's League. a. comprehensive account of the League's "activities uring the summer and autumn by Mrs. O. V.
Sterling work, Int Marsh said, was done by the Employ. ment Bureau headed by Mra. E. Aslamazian. The League has musi-al school conducted by -Mrs.
Zander-ital, while courses in for clan languages are directed by Miss Daffel and Mrs. ED. llyina, Mrs. V.N, Tevleva spoke of the activi of the International Committee of the Joint Women's Association. A. report on Russian emigres, statistics for which were gathered by Mrs. EL. Inlerberger,, was sent to London 10 Mrs. A.V. "Titkova-Williams, a well known Russian journalist "and social worker, Unemployed Musicians Acute unemployment has gripped the Yanks of Rugsian musicians his city. Musicians gathering here from Hankow, Nanking and. flood-stricken Tientsin have made the situation even harder. With the war in Europe many musicians in Indo-China and the" Dutch East. Indies have also lost their jobs. Local Rus-lan musicians are faced with competition from Filipino" musicians who are closely banded together and thus able to monopolize positions in most musement places in the city.
Having been granted necessary permission by the Holy Synod in Jusoslavia, the "Russian Orthodox Mission in' China is shortly founding 2 Women's Monastery in Shanghai.
To enable people interested in the history of the Russian Church, theology, and philosophy. and similar subjects pursue their knowledge in these spheres. Courses in Theology were started on November 10. The lecturers are Bishop John, Prof. N. P. Pokrovsky and Mr. M. B. Pri-
Rent Question St, Tichon's The well-known St, Tichon's Orphanage Is now giving shelter to one hundred children (66 boys and 34 uris). OF these, 44° boarders are Riven their "education at the phanage, while 30 are" being taught inv schools stich as the Rusuian Schoo!
Avenue Pelain, the Pushkin School, and the St. Sophia School. 10 are given practical (raining in hospitals, confeetionaties, the French Professional School, printing and. binding plants, thus being prepared for the business of earning their own livelihood. A" reception given "last week was well attended, and the children presented an entertaining proxTamme, Among" those present Were Archbishop Victor, Bishop John, Mrs. 0. V. Mash, Inv.' E. F. Harris, Mr. S.W. Woolf (President of the Rotary Club). Mr. ud Mes. Kind~ ness, Mrs. Jensen, Miss de Gheratdi.
'A society of nature lovers: is being formed in the colony, its fest aim Russian tenants at present in the tolls of the rent crisis face a situation whereby they must sign contracts that landlords do their best to avoid signing except in gold dollars, The contracts make tenants pay money in advance, whether or hot contains clauses on the use of the kitchen, hot water, electricity, radio, etc. "Ail these details can at will be used (0 obtain more money" from the: tenants, Day of Mourning Tuesday. November 7, was the Day lof Russian Sorrow, when the Russian [Colony mourned the assassination of {the Martyr-Tsar Nicholas IT and the Royal Family, and the death of those thousands who fell fighting "for the Faith, the Tsar and the Motherland."
At the stroke of 5 in the afternoon, church "belis began pealing. and in all Orthodok Churches special re-quiet services were conducted before vast congregations. The Russian
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