The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-29
RUSSIAN REFUGEES
DISTURBING JAPAN
Groups Representing Various
Political Factions Engage
in Plots and Counterplots.
SPREAD RADICAL IDEAS
One Shipload of Desperadoes
Force Captain to Send Con-
CALCULATIONS to l. w. w.
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ny MtLTON ~ "ciN'o
rrsten especially for the Far Eastern
Section Of TIE Sun.
,opap faces a real problem with the
pnssians resident. in her country they
ao,y Number several thousand. Ioko-
NINA particularly feels the burden of
~, most unassimilable people. After
,Sn czar's Government fell and the new
uorer began to assert itself, those of
~ old regime who felt they were not
s,fs where uthey were, fled to Eastern
siberia and into the towns In Man
churia: Chinese towns under Russian
MANAGEMENT or no management at all,
ami finally even to Japan; In fact, so
srre we're they of haven there they
came IN ever increasing numbers.
one of the leading hotels having been
oyefwhelmed with these people posted
SIGN; positively no more Russians
riu he accommodated here" This was
dono merely to make it possible for that
bolei TO take care of it's regular guests
tho commercial travelling public All
available space in the foreign conces-
sicng was soon taken up and rents In
Japan were uuadrupled, while the wages
N domestic servants became so fear
h,lly high only the more fortunate could
SECURE them English or French speak
Ing servants were greatly in demand.
and some OF the mission schools had to
surrender their students for the more
lucrative profession of being ''house
maid
Many kinds of Russians came in this
way. 10 Japan: the ultra-radical, the
milo advocate of sane democracy, the
remi-Imperialist and the extreme reac-
tlonary who would again see the throne
Of the monarchistic Russia in its proud
pnsition of supreme rule. These con-
lenders presented no small enigma, the
Jews we're so well represented that their
former observation-disclosures who had been
famous in directing the pogroms
against them--were unable to do more
than make Objectionable reference to
them. II you dined with one of the
lmperialists you were branded by the
radical as an associate of the BLACK
Hundred" and IL YOU were seen with
one of the radicals you were a Boil
thtyik' and an enemy to society.
Il would be fair to say the Russians
IN Japan divided into two groups would
represent on the one side the open ad-
yocates of monarchisn, the rich and tho
supporters of koIchak or the Omsk Gov
eminent, and on the other side would
be the representatives ,of the workers.
the advocates of all kinds of democ-
racy and the out and out agitator. II
was not difficult to select the side where
refinement was in evidence, those fol-
lowers of the Gar who would see Kol.
chalk made securs were in the main
from the Weather classes of old Russia
and their education and position had left
is mark; these people were much more
able to present the story of Russia To
their hearers than their opponents
Many russians From America.
Is Il any wonder then our Officials
a. well as laymen should come to look
Upon these as their proper informants,
They we're equal to the task. too, one
rOtable instance being in the person
Of former Governor of Odessa, resi-
dent in Yokohama, his fame being close
ly associated with former pogrom
against the Jews, who together with hi!
charming daughter was always con
yeniently near to furnish inside infor
nation to those interested; this couple
had a particular aptitude in dissent
mating the kind of information which
fitted well with the desires of the aver
age government official and they wer,
soon generally accepted as welcom,
guests wherever allied sentiment crystal
Lied II an Admiral or other naval Of
military officer desired information ou
friend the Russian General was Away
available Thus the cities of Yokohama
Toxic, Kobe, Dairen, Shanghai. Hardin
Mukden and Vladivostok were al
equipped with those deciples of Kolchal
Who could be depended upon 70 furnish
The right kind of information for ou
guidance. With such an array of will
ing iniormers is 1t strange then we knew
80 well just what TO do at all times?
To return to the problem Japan, o
more specifically, the city of Yokoham;