Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-24
CREAM OF RUSSIA ExiLES.
WrangePs Followers In PitiabIe Con
eIition in Constaptinopie Harbor

Wfange|S Followers In PttiabIe Con-
clifton in Constantinople Harbor.
BY Associated Press.
New York, Dec. 24.-Two hundred
children of the officers of General
Wrangels staff. sons and daughters
OF generals. colonies and captains,
We're among the 100000 Russian ref
ugces brought to Constantinople
harbor by ships Of the allied nations
when the bolsheyiki broke down
Wrangers defense and overan the
Crimea.
Many of them We're orpans. their
fathers having persisted while fight
In. the bolsheviki. One was the
daughter OF the minister OF finance
Of the Wrangel regime. All wer.
nearly fanished when the vessels
on which they had taken refuge ar
rived here, for the ships larders had
been exhausted.
SO hard pressed were all the ref
ugees to obtain food that they
threw diamonds and weapons or any
other valuahles into the boats Of
traders from constantinopie in pay
ment for anything eatable.
A graphic story of their arrival. AZ
coustantinople and how nm Ameri-
can destroyer took the 200 children
|of WrangeFs officers Off the refugee
vessels and landed them at the
trnchoma orphanago maintained by
the Near East Relief is told in re-
ports received by that organization
In this city. 1t reads In part:
The harbor is wonderful and
sad sight. Dne hundred thousand
Russians are on ships there. some of
them dying. The best OF the old Rus
sian families are among these refu-
gees, ttc men who fought for
Wrangel. crowded and sick and
without food except what the relief
people can get to them and the
bread and water given to them by
the French.
ing. and little boats go to the ships
and the Russians drop diamonds
firearms and other valuables to these
traders in exchange for food The
people on these vessels represent
the remains of an old aristocracy
with no country to take them tho
the French expect 10 send many to
Morocco.
The children were packed with
grown people like sardines on the
big ships coming from Crimea and
most of them were sick from fatigue.
'ock of nonrishnent and lack OF
sleep. Miss Gunther and Miss Hast
ines. trelief workers) went TO the
sh!ps on board United States de-
stroyer and 600 children were tagged
with the names, of their fathers and
mothers and the fathers occupation.
Many said: Father died in wran-
gels army fiphting for Russia The
destroyer brought the children to the
landing OF the trachonla orphanase
which Is located right on the Bos-
piorous Ten mothers were taken
with their very young children and
babies and the other children
ranged from to 13 years.
Most Of them looked exactly like
well-bred American children. Some
carried their dolls tightly in thief:
arms and one little boy Rugged a
teddy bear. A boy OF IL carried sick
little boy of years because he came
from his town In Russia. He would
not eat until the smaller boy Sad
received soup. Most OF the children
could speak French.
First the mothers with little
babies We're fed and then the chill
dreh. first the girls and then the
boys. One boy ate six bowls of soup
and all the children ate as If they
We're starved. There was no noise,
no CRYING. no disorder. They were
like little soldiers. All the boys re.
moved their hats upon entering the
orphanage. The mothers and babies
We're first given a bath and then the
bOyS and efrlSS