The last day is spent in cooking and colouring eggs, but the evening finds housewives and the rest of the fair sex busier than ever, preparing. themselves for the church service, where they are sure they will im: press their sisters with their coiffures and dresses. The result is that all beauty parlours, in the areas populated by Russians, are full dur ing the day, with the owners] lamenting the fact that there is only one Orthodox Easter each year, 'Today is the day when homes are visited and everyone is welcome. 'The duty of a housewife is to remain home throughout the day to receive guests while the husbands and children are out, wishing a happy' holiday to their friends. The day is) also an official visiting day among. Church dignitaries, and Bishop John ind others will be a home to receive the Russian community in the morning. Mr, N. A. Ivanow. chairman of the Russian Emigrants' Committee, will also receive his} friends in the morning, To young Russian cavaliers Easter presents one of the most welcome opportunities, for it is a Russian custom that allows young men to kiss girls three times, without risking a rebuke. The holiday period, short in Shanghai, really continues during 40 days. inthe course of which "Christ Has Risen" is sung in all the churches. In this cosino~ politan city, however, the majority of Russiags'have to return to their Jobs on Monday, although some are given a holiday'on that day, and Easter spirit does not prevail long as it does In Harbin, where all part of Apr, 21, The first day of Russian Easter according to the Orthodox calendar was celebrated by the Russian community here yesterday in traditional style, In many households there. was noticeable dwindling in the number of dishes which go to make the gastronomic spreads for which the principal Russian holiday of the year Is famed, due to the abnormal price of, staple' commodities.
The ardour of visiting friends and relatives confined to male members of every family was not dampened by the rain in the morning which proved of short duration and brought relief from the heat of the day. The women folks, true to custom, remained at home to entertain visitors and to regale them with wine "and food. The custom of paying visits among the men only accompanies the first day of Easter.
On Saturday evening Russian Orthodox churches iroughout the city were filled to capacity with devout worshippers when the usual midnight, services were held with the solemnity which has made Russian Easter also the chief church festival of the year. Candle mass as in former years was a long affair. but not lacking in interest as the "churches were brilliantly illuminated for the occasion and there was the usual "presence of numerous adherents of other faith After the high priest had one nounced that "Christ Is Risen"
Sent by Mail "_Shangha, Apr. 21.
Some politically inspired persons] in Shanghai have been trying to worsen the relations between Chungking and the U.SS.R. or the Chinese communist army by sending anticommunist pamphlets to individuals and organizations in imitation official envelopes used by Chungking press circles in Shanghai. The pamphlets. In Which are articles of a very inflammable nature, have been widely. Mistributed here, but the trick was discovered eventually when many of them failed to reach, their recipients by mail and were therefore returned by the Post Office to the Chungking ress circles which had not mailed them at all. Pro-Chungleing circles were supposed to have been the senders, but in reality they had not reamed of stich an intrigue.
That the senders of these pamphlets intended to-involve many people In trouble while concentrating " their efforts on estranging the already Somewhat strained relations between Chungking and Moscow, may gauged by the fact that even the name of the headquarters of Genera) Chiang Kai-shek has been used as a cloak. One pamphlet entitled "Sins Red Bandits." falsely purported to, have been printed by the "Chung Hwa Book Company." the second biggest Chinese publishing firm in sympathy with Chungking. On. the Jeff side of the cover of the pamphlet the characters "Bdlited by the Nai chang Field Headquarters of the Military Affairs Council" are clearly printed,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.