Notes

A new Soviet calendar divides the year into twelve months of 30 days each; each month has six weeks of five days each, each week has four working days and one holiday. The extra five or six days at the end of each year form a special holiday week at the end of the year.

In the Caucasus, Sunday is called Lenin Day because the great Red Chief was buried on a Sabbath (TIME, Feb. 4). A report that Russia was to be renamed Leninia or Leninland lacked confirmation. Petrograd has already been named Leningrad (TIME, April 14). Under the Kremlin walls in Moscow excavations were made for a permanent Lenin tomb. Popular superstition has had it for many centuries that there exists an "underground Kremlin" full of priceless treasures of medieval Tsars. This has been discovered to be fact, and the Bolsheviki, having discovered many wondrous things, are fired with the hope of extracting riches undreamed of.

A bearded boy four years and ten months of age, having a man's physique, was operated upon by Moscow surgeons who are trying to check his extraordinary development.

Many towns on the Black Sea were reported to be sliding into the water. Practically the whole south coast of the Crimea, the Russian Riviera, is affected and the once fashionable Alupka has moved three feet seawards.

Field mice, who are destroying crops, are held responsible for a serious outbreak of bubonic plague in the steppe region of Ukraine and South Russia.