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Comeback? With Soviet gold, Mongol troops and Russian officers, General Feng Yu-hsiang, "Christian Bolshevist War Lord,'" recently driven from Peking (TIME, April 12) was last week reported preparing a drive from Siberia on his native land. Then quite suddenly the occidental press discovered the General in Berlin. Perhaps he was only buying peanuts...
Died. "General" Simon Petlura, onetime President of the short-lived Ukranian Republic (March to November, 1921), vacillating ally of the illfated anti-Bolshevist commanders Denikin and Wrangel; at Paris, after being shot five times by one Samuel Schwartzbar, "a Russian," who allegedly assassinated him in revenge for his onetime oppression of Ukranian Jews...
Anastasia and Tschaikovski then - runs the story - fled to Bucharest, Roumanian capital, where she bore him a son. Tschaikovski was later shot by Bolshevist agents; and "Frau von Tschaikovski" declares that she placed the child in an orphan asylum near Bucharest when she was brought to Berlin by her brother...
...Storr-Best is thoroughly acquainted with the Bolshevist educational system as it works out at present, as well as with the old Russian system which flourished under the Czarist regime. In addition to having lived many years in Russia, Dr. Storr-Best has recently taken extended trips through Czechoslovakia, Ingoslavia, Roumania, and Bulgaria for the British Board of Education with the purpose of making a detailed investigation of all types of education in these countries...
...once a favorite of the Emperor Nicholas and went over to the Reds only when his army was disintegrating about him because of bolshevist propaganda. One of his sons died in the Red Army and another in the White Army which attempted to overthrow the Soviet regime. At the time of his death he was drawing a pension of $150 (about 29 chervonetz) a month from the Soviets...