The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-23
YELLOW LABOR
 INCREASING
 RUSS VILLAGES
Slavs Facing Big Problem of How to Handle Inva-
 ders After War.

Rome, Marcn I5.-An l(a1an Qelo- gation, headed by Senator Scialoja, has just returned from Russia, where it went to strengthen the politico-eco- homie relations between that coun- try and Italy and news has been
 brought here of tremendous problems which face the Russian government and which are clamoring for quick so- lution. During the thirty-two months of continuous war, the commissioners learned, Russia has not only done her full share and more in behalf of the Entente but has accomplished mar vels in the way of railway construc- tion. The construction of the Kola Peninsula line has insured Russia an all winter ice free port.
 During all the thirty-two months
 of war, a neutral diplomat informed
 the Italians. the attention of Russia has steadily been fixed on the western
 border where she is now fighting her greatest of all wars. The resources
 of the country were placed wholly at the disposal of the army and the heart
 of the Empire throbbed in harmony
 with that of her sons in arms. Not
 withstanding this, the problem of
 
 trating the nations determination to
 win the war, the diplomat said. Rus, sia still lacks round 100000 miles
 of railroads in order to move swiftly
 her crops and supplies from the cen-
 tral and eastern agricultural districts to the western front The few ex- isting lines are c1ogged and on some of them traffic has been at stand still for weeks.
 Russia Faces Famine. Besides, for the first time in her | history, Russia is face to face with the famine. The reasons for this are obvious. As another well-informed diplomat put it, the recall to the col ors of millions of men and the huge losses sustained greatly reduced the
 labor supply.
 In proportion to her vase area Rus sia is scantily populated. Besides, | a good part of her population, though within the borders of the empire, are beyond the reach of the law of state. These tribes Russia tried to mobilize l for the building of the Kola Penfn- 1 sl>a railway, but the efforts were only l in part successful, due to the nomadic spirit of the peoples with whom she l was dealing. Then the question of inn porting Chinese labor was first dis cussed. Russia had sent a military mission to Persia to recruit laborers ! and 100000 were taken to Russia to reinforce the 100000 Persians already l employed in the Baku oil fields. The newcomers were sent into the agricul- tura1 districts in the Caucasus and l the Basin of the lower Volga. Many Chinese in Russia. l But even these incoming laborers l were not enough. In order to strengthen the western front. Rus 1 sia had to send more and more men
 from her eastern provinces and the 1 barrier she had raised against the invasion of the yellow perir' 50 years ago were broken down. Thousands l of Chinese laborers were imported to l work on the Kola railroad. With the 1 Coolies came Chinese merchants. To- l day Petrograd as we'll as Moscow and l Odessa have big 'Chinatowns.' A l stream of gold flows from them to the | Chinese Empire.
 ] Japanese followed on the footsteps 1 of the Chinese. Thousands of them are now employed in the machine | shops and arSenalS or the husSlaIl l efpire. They earn big wages and save l most of their money.
 l For the present the neutral dlplo- l mat said, this invasion cannot be 1 stemmed. Last year nearly 6OO,OOO l prisoners and 300,000 Polish refugees helped till the soil, but they are not l sufficient. This year Chinese, Japan l csc, Persians and Koreans must be 1 employed on a bigger scale than ever l If the war continues Russia must need l even more yellow enigrants. The l future of Russia is most dark in re- spect to her manhood and the preser- l yation of her racial purity.