After a three months' automobile tour of the United States, Dr. A. V. Marshad-Marsh, whose adult son and married daüghter are at present living in America, has returned to Shanghai This was Dr. Marshad-Marsh's first visit to that country, W and ko ts enthusiastic in his account their knees and kiss the benevolent ground 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 The well-known St. Tichon's Orphanage is now giving sheller to one children (66 boys and 34 Of these, 44 boarders are given their education at the orphanage, while 30 are being taught in schools such as the Rusbian School on Avenue Petain, the Pushkin School, and the St. Sophia School. 10 are given practical training in hospitals, confectionaries, the French Professional School, printing and binding plants, thus being dor the business of earning their own livelihood. A reception given last week was well attended, and the children presented an entertaining programme. Among those present were Archbishop Victor, Bishop John, Mrs. O. V. Maith, Mr. E. F. Harris, Mr. S. W. Woolf (President of the Rotary Club) Mr. and Mrs. Kindness, Mrs. Jensen, Miss de Gherardi.
A society of nature lovers is being formed in the colony, its first aim being to collect enough funds to buy a cottage of the type at present plentiful on Hungjao Road and which once graced Point Island. This purchase is hardly within the means of most individual Russians and Russian families, but it is hoped that Once a society is formed the financial difficulty will be overcome. The Organizers are planning to buy a garden together with the cottage, where they can do some planting, hold picnics and use it as a base for fishing and hunting. In general it is planned as a weekend country club with minimum expenditure entailed.
Replacing the Russian newspaper "Russkyi Golos" published in Wayside, "Russ," a weekly journal, has appearance.. lis Editor articles by several prominent local Russian journalists the says it will serve the national interests of Russia and unite Russian emigrants in Shanghai, Noted Legal Authority Dead It is learned from Harbin that Cathedral could not accommodate the assemblage of no less than a thousand, and many had to stand outside, When the choir took up the chords of "Peace to the Saints" and "Everlasting Memory," everyone knelt for the duration of the hymns. Speaking to @ congregation which included the heads of the Russian colony, Archbishop Victor enjoined them to be more steadfast in their prayers for their fallen brethren and for their homeland in its hour of darkness. Similar services were held in the St. Nicholas' Military Church and in the St. Resurrection Church in Wayside.
On the same day a speech on the situation in Soviet Russia 22 years after the entrenchment of Soviet power was given in the Ex-Officers' Club by Gen. E. G. Sycheff. "Economic problems gave birth to communism." stated the General as the basis of his lecture, "and economic problems will kill i Quoting official Soviet sources, he touched on the worthlessness of the Soviet rouble which enables the worker to buy little except a pair of shoes on his wages, the high percentage of "slackers," "disorganizers" and enemies of the regime, the practice of distributing proletariat titles and medals instead of bread, and the discrepancy between practical and theoretical successes of the Five Year Plans. Assuring his listeners that the hour of retribution is not far off, he wamed them against the agitation of Soviet agents and "pink emigres." "Communism will die concluded General Sycheff, "but Russia will live"
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