Madame A. Cosme, wife of the local French Ambassador, has visited ihe Russian Soup Kitchen, accom-paried by Countess De La Ferte, Madame L. Fabre, and Dr. Palud, Director of the French Health Department The guests were met by representatives of the Kitchen. They expressed a desire to visit the Kitchen's menu, and sat down at a table together with the poor men, women and children who come for their meals, They were served the traditional Russian borsch, cutlets à la Russe, and macaroni., The visitors expressed their satisfaction with the meal, and questioned directors of the kitchen on various features of the Work carried on by this organization, which feeds hundreds of poor families in the colony.
Russian newspapers remark that lately many Chinese posters have appeared in Shanghai, on which, in addition to other personages like
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