As is always the case just before the "Great" Lent, when for seven weeks marriages are forbidden by the church, the wedding season' inthe Russian colony isin full swing. Every day and on Sundays especially weddings are solemnized, and a great deal of space would be required to enumerate all those we nave bound themselves by Hymen's bonds this season. Weddings are fOllowed by receptions, and this contributes to Keeping festivities in the olorly at their height, The outer facade and the interior, of the largest Orthodox Church Shanghai, is gradually taking on a Anished appearance, "but the final completion" needs both time and money. Not yet built, are. three doors, four courses on the small cupolas, and the chief "ikonostasy" waist plays a major Ole thodox service. Steam heating has also to be installed. To collect funds to do all this, and to buy the land on which the' church stands, special tins are passed around the houses of those of the orthodox faith, with the request. that each day each of its occupants put in the sum of one cent. Some 250 of these tins have already been placed. If this number is raised to 1,000 it will not be hard to raise among Shanghai's 15,000 devotees of the Orthodox faith, the sum necessary to finish the Cathedral and purchase wwe land. Especially generous donations are being made by Mrs. E. N. Litvinova, Mr. A. A. Royer, Dr. N. N. Kuznetsoff, Mr. N. A. Belonovsiey and the Unjenin family.
'On Sunday, February 12, Col. A. F. Guschin, the' well-known' welter "on military' subjects, gave an interesting, lecture in the Astor House on the activity of the Comintern in Asia. Tu 1025 Col. Gusehin arrived in China together with the Borodin mission, and holy.
Oil Fields in Russia connection with the death of Sir Detterding, Mr. P. P. Batolin already been noted. in these columns was before the Tevolulon known as the Russian Rockefeller, has given' his reminiscences of the deceased, whom he met in London in ihe conference of the all magnates. knowledge, that Sir Henry Delterding, had. large all-idds near the city of Guriev Province. After the Revolinumber of Paris meetings with representatives. of the Russian oil-industry in emigration, and readily bought oil-Aelds in the Caucasus and near the coast of the Caspian Sea; which he himself knew. very well. To the Russian Armenians, who for the most part owned these all-wells, he paid tens of millions of franes, believing as he dig," in the renaissance. of Russia, Having been married t6 a Russian, he gave wide help to Russian emigres And all local Russian newspapers devoted large space to his death.
Admiral Remembered The Seventh of February is always devoted by Russian Shanghai to. the memory of Admiral A. V. Kolchak, who, of this day in 1920 was executed On February 18 at St. Peter's Churcl
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