Shanghai, Nov. 21.
Paris, it is common knowledge, is recognized as the centre of Russian emigration, In connection: with. the present war, the Russian National Committee in Paris has published the following statement; "The unheard-of duplicity. and cynicism shown by the Soviet "Government in signing an agreement with the German Reich ft the same time that conversations With the great democracies were proceeding in Moscow, must at long last make patent the' actual siate of faffaits to all who had'any illusions in the matter and reveal all the per-fAdiousness of the international Com: munist government at present entrenched in the Kremlin, "But we Russian emigres who think along national lines and have for more than 20 years reiterated to the world the true situation in Russia, cannot, now more than In any other Ume, Tet world-opinion confuse Communist chieftains with the Russian people. to 75. discussed and sometimes even Inspected; and when you finally make your escape you find you bought something you did not want at all.
In @ Russian store the purchase seems merely incidental to the conversation. The loquacious salesman confides that only due to personal regard for the shopper will he "sell the article in question for $10.50, whereas only yesterday Mme Fishkin bought it for $11.20, The shopper, ly turn, assures the salesman that he has come to buy in his store only out of. a feeling of solidarity for a countryman who, if he is not mistaken, crime from the sine home-
After these affectionate exchanges the two will touch briefly' on polities, curse Hiller and praise Mussolini (or praise Hitler and curse Mussolini). proceed to current market prices and "these American sailors who imagine themselves to be exotic. princes—making Rife in terraces quite impossible, they are!"
"It would be unnatural to presume that the Russian people, a nation deeply honest and honourable, impossibly patient, highly patriotic and now enslaved by the Soviet yoke and constantly exposed to the threat of death, can have anything to do with the' Iles, the crimes and the betrayals of a government which was entrenched in" Russia by Germany ud which had the latter's moral and material support, "Communist power was installed in Russia by forces antagonistic to her, Russian intelligentsia who had time to emigrate were constantly perseeuted and destroyed by that power. We, who have the generous hospital-Hy'of countries where we found re-tige, and the uncounted millions of our brothers and. sisters. remaining in Russia under the inhuman yoke of the Soviet slave-drivers—we all condemn the actions of the latter and eunnot allow their shameful ways to like a blot of disgrace on the record of the great and long-suffering Russian nation, "Once and for all a stop must be put {othe confusion between the friered name of Russia and the name of the Comintern USSR."
Al Grave of Unknown Soldier Soon after the beginning of the war a special delegation in Paris, consisting of representatives of the 'Russian social associations and unions, took part with Freneh= men in the' traditional ceremony before the grave of the Unknown Soldier. number of articles have appeared "Russian and French newspapers pointing out that according to French Governmental decree Rus= sion emigres are no less subject 10 military conscription than French: men themselves and must take part In the defence of the country. Those who have not been mobilized have inmost eases joined the Army volunteers oF (ake Part in civilian Aefence, Thousands of Russians are Working, ju armament factories and other Industrial plants working for the defence of France.
Information from Germany, on the other hand, reveals that, due to Berlin's friendship with Moscow, re-Iations towards Russian emigration have changed in the respect that subsidies to White organizations have been reduced, although Russians are at present very much in the vogue in the country, and even German fnclory-workers ore taught the In Hankow, which was once, the centre of Russian trade with China and where no small number of Russian millionaires once resided, Emigrants' Committee has up. OMleers of the organizati Messrs, P.O. Ivanov, ALN, Molchanov, vice-president:
Faddeev, hon' see., and I. K. Panov, hon, treas.
'The article is wrapped wp, the $1050 handed over, and at the door the two pause for' another brief 15- minute chat, When they part regret. fully and the buyer proceeds homeward he sees in the shopwindow the article he has just purchased, with the price-tag_ announcing—$0.75, Prayers For Russia solemn liturgy was held on November I in the St, Resurrection Church "in Wayside, conducted by Archbishop Victor and participated in by the church choir and other members of the clergy. A large congregation was present, including Mfr. N, N, Miakazawa, representative of the Imperial Japanese Military. Mission, Gen. V. 1. Karpov, Gen. A. F. Guschin, Mr. Mf, N. Tretiakov and other notables. After the liturgy a prayer was said for the resurrection of Russia, Later tea was served In the church chancellery, after which Archbishop Victor, Archimandrite Father Feodor Father Dionisyi School where the; questions on religious kriowled! declared themselves very satisfied.
Gen. L, M. Adamovitch, Commander of the Russian Detachment of the French Police, left Shanghai on two months' leave on November 17. Gen. Adamoviteh sailed in the Conte Verde for Manila where his son, an en-kinoer, Is employed in a large American firm, The announcement of the proposed repatriation of British and French troops from North China has struck uneasiness into the hearts of bar and cabaret owners doing business in that art of the country. As a lage percentage of their patrons are French and British soldiers, it is feared that their departure will cause a serious slump oF even complete crash, Rus sian itis working in these concerns fre also threatened with unemployment.
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