The Archive · 1940

Nudist in Ave. Joffre

Recently Avenue Joffre, the centre of the Russian community and ald by the diplo-he "Daily Telegraph."

tat "power central fortress A sickly your the corner of Rue Cardinal Mercier, without the benefit of a stitch of clothing. In spite of general confusion, the "nudist"'paraded along Avenue Joffre and wes halted by a police patrol opposite the Renaissance Restaurant. It was established that the youth was mentally deranged.

The yearly exodus to the summer resorts has begun in the Russian colony. Among those who have sailed pert, who has RO or nren; M. A.G. Denbigh, sailing for Hakodat Mr. Denbigh resides as the notary British Consular Agent; I de Gherardi and Miss de a who will spend three months in Tsingtao; Mr. E. S. Kauftmann, who is returning to Harbin; S. Grigorieff, well-known businessman and Vice-President of the Russian Chamber of Commerce, who has left for a four-months' tour of the United States; and Mr. M. S. Bloch, who is sailing to Dairen and further north. large-scale bee-hives on Hungjao Road, was the victim of a sad accident in which all the bee-hives were destroyed by fire. When the blaze ug ey of Broke out, at about 9 pom, it was impossible to call the Fire Brigade, and General Sakharoff tried to beat the flames out himself. He was

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