By "Stroy"
Shanghai, Jan. 23, Keen interest in the English language is at present being evinced by the Russian colony. Although no one is competed to do so, nearly all Russians in Shanghai are either studying the language or are planning to-study it, Youngsters find it easy as their fathers and mothers [And it difteult, To the latter, it is Fraught with dimeulties of pronunelation, construction of phrases and the use of verbs and prepositions, and further contains the harrowing '<to the Russian tongue—sound_ th. French and German languages, ussians agree, are much more orderly. The "Evening Zaria" recently questioned "teachers of the English Tanguage on the progress and _fail-Ings of their Russian pupils, They unanimously bemoan the tendency of many Russians to use slang, and the fact that while they: plunge into courses with unbridled enthusiasm, they often lack the stamina to carry font the and. Once they have {rasped the rudiments of conversa~ lon' they decided that they have learnt all that Is necessary and that reading newspapers, talking friends and attending the cinema will do the rest.
At a meeting of the Russian Modi-cal Society held in the Russian Hospital the Chairman, Dr, A.V. Tane, fave a talk on "New Trends in. Payehiatry."" Dr. D. I. Kazakol® reviewed the activities of the Society during the year 1908, while Dr. B. T. Yasinsky gave an account of the work done by the magazine pubished by. the Russian Medical Society Prot. G. G. Telbers who for the present in. Shanghai, one time Prot. Telberg was Professor of the History of Russian Caw at the Tomsk University. and was Dean of the Law Faculty in the Seratoy 'University. He. was_ini-Ser of Justice in' the Omsk Provi-Sonal. Government, "and after the Civil War published the first-docu rents regarding the murder of the Imperial Family. at Ekaterinburg 1018. His Tatest' work, "The Baptism of ftusia at Kiev" is. at present Seing. printed in Shanghai. "In Interview to the Russian press, Prot. Telberg noted that during the twenty years he lived. in Tsingtao that city tas been happily spared the horrors war Guns thundered la the Vicinity, but inside the city 2 life owed at an even Keel. The. new Mayor, Mfr. Chao. Chi, had held this post 1b years back, and was remem= Sered. with affection. He speaks both English and German, and ex-
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