In an interview with the "Shanghai Zaria" Mme Henri Cosme, wife of the newly appointed French Ambassador to China, stated that the most pleasant memories of her years of travelling in the course of her husband's appointments to one country after another, belong to her residence in Peiping during the years 1927 to 1929. Foreigners in that city, she says, lived like one big happy family. Mme Cosme was very friendly with the Russian family of Gen. D. L. Horvath and Baron Staal von Holstein, who was a well-known Russian sinologue and student of Sanscript and who was married to Miss Grave the sister of the former adviser to the Russian Legation. When in 1929 M. and Mme Cosme left for Revel, the capital of Estoni: they again mixed with Russian high society, living in the home of Baron Stackelberg and being very friendly with Baron Meiendorf, Baron Rosen and the family of Prince Volkonsky. Mme Cosme once visited the Russian border where she admired the church-bells of the ancient Russian city of Pskov. Neither did she fail to visit the grave of Prince Rurik, the legendary creator of the Russian kingdom.
Russian graduates of the Ecole Remi will on June 20 take part in a dinner celebrating the conclusion of the school-year, These dinners have become nothing short of a tradition, and are attended by all the graduates and the t g staff headed by the Principal, M. G. F. Nicolet de Chalet.
On June 15 an interesting lecture was given in the Ex-Officers' Club by Col. K. I. Kluege on "Spirit and Technique in War." This lecture was an answer by the veteran officer to a lecture given by Gen. V. D. Kosmin.
Life of Grand Duke The Russian colony continues to take keen interest in the life in Eng-jand of Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovitch, head of the Romanoff family and pretender to the Russian throne. As has already been reported in these columns, the young Grand Duke works in a factory in an English province. He works eight-and-a-half hours a day, leads the life of an ordinary workman and is subject to all the rules of the factory, His work, he says, is responsibility and there is plenty of it. After work he often plays chess with his fellow-workmen and then returns to the modest house of the English family with which he lives. The Grand Duke gets up at 6 in the morning, leaves the factory at 6 in the evening and finds his life "useful and interesting." In the evenings he reads. His hands are testimony to the rough work he has to do at the factory. Life in the provinces is, of còurse, monotonous but the young Grand Duke does not complain and steers clear of all social engagements, and has rejected invitations that upon his arrival in England used to pour into his lap.
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