Krasnoyarsk, Mar. 30.
Language lessons enlivened the monotonous journey of the Japa Foreign Minister, Mr. Yosuke Matsuoka and his staff across the vast snow covered expanse of, Central Siberia, With his Secretary-Interpreter, Mr. Yoshio Noguchi, assuming the role of teacher, lessons every day in Russian were began yesterday, The initiative came not from members of Mr. Matsvoka's stoff, but from the escorting Soviet officials who asked Mr. Noguchi to teach them Japanese.
When Mr. Nobuchi opened his class, the suggestion was edvenced by the Japanese that he should teach them Russian conversation, whereupon. the class was promptly organized.
Mr. Matsuoka was among the students, brushing no his Russian which he learned while serving as Attache at St. Petersburg when he was young. but which had become rusty.—Domei.
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