RUSSIAN LADY LOSES SABLE COAT

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 32, 30 April 1927, Page 12

RUSSIAN LADY LOSES SABLE COAT

OUTWITTED BY OPPONENT A story from Harbin, published in a recent issue of the San Francisco “Chronicle," says: This Sino-Russian outpost on the Manchurian border was the scene of an unusual incident yesterday, when Madame Lashevich. wife of the Soviet yen oral manager of the Chinese Eastern Railway, was formally deprived by the Chinese police of a beautiful sable coat with which she recently returned from Moscow. Madame Lashevich went shopping in the new coat and in the famous Choorin Emporium was accosted by a Mrs. Poliakoff, a Russian political refugee, who loudly claimed that the coat belonged to her and demanded its return. Madame Lashevich Was Embarrassed Madame Lashevich was embarrassed, to say the least, but a sable coat is a sable coat, and she was not going to give it up. An argument between the two women attracted a large crowd and many policemen, to whom Mrs. Poliakoff explained that before she was ex Had from Russia because of her politics, the “State" had requisitioned her sables. “The woman is mad," cried Madame Lashevich. I might be mad, having spent the last ten years in Russia,” replied the claimant, “but the coat is mine." Proved Claim by Mark on Skins The Chinese police took the two women to the station and there demanded that Mrs. Poliakoff prove her claim, warning her that she would be punished if she was not telling the truth. "Look under the lining of the coat and you’ll ithd my initials on every skin." she replied. The police did—and Madame Lashevich handed her the coat and waited in the police station until her husband, the highest Russian dignitary in Harbin, brought her a warm wrap and took, her home.