Travelling through Shanghai, Mr. V. N. Leontovitch, mining engineer, and the manager of one of the mining concerns in the Philippines, has recounted in an interview with the Russian press that he found himself in Manila four years ago during the 1935 gold boom. At that time 600 gold mining companies were formed; of these only 30 remain today. At that time, also, Russians not only left for the Philippines on their own initiative, but were often invited there as special~ ists in the mining industry. At present unemployed Russians are slowly leaving the islands, lessening the ranks of the jobless there—although Russians who found themselves without work in Manila after the gold boom, were helped by the Russian colony of that city, which is closely united. Mr. Leontovitch says that it is impossible to work islands have no complain of their life.
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