Arizona republican., 1920-12-27
ORPHAN TOTS AMONG WRANGEL REFUGEES
 AT CONSTANT|NOPLE

NEW YORK. Dec 26.-Two hundred children of the officers of General Wrankefs staff, sons and daughters of generals. colonels and captains, we're among the 100000 Russian refu- gees brought to Constantinople harbor by,ships of the allied nations when the bolsheviki broke down Wrangel s de- feuSe and overran the Crimea.
 Many of them were orphans, their fatiers having perished while fight ing the bolsheviki. One was the dahEhter of the minister of finance of thd Wrangel regime. All were nearly fartiished when the vessels on which thdy had taken refuge arrived here. for the ships larders had been ex- hausted.
 So hard pressed were all the refu gees to obtain food that they threw diamonds and weapons or any other valuables into the boats of traders from Constantinople in payment for anything eatable.
 Al graphic story of their arrival at Conlstantinople and how an American destroyer took the 200 children of Wrangels officers off the refugee ves- selA and landed them at the trachoma orphanage maintained by the Near East Relief is told in reports received by that organization in this city. It reads in part:
 'gThe harbor is a wonderful and sad sight. One hundred thousand Rus siafls are on ships there, some of them dying The best of the old Russian fau1iIivs are among these refugees the men who fought for Wrangel crowded and sick and without food except what the relief people can gei to them and the bread and water given to them by the French.
 "0f course. natives are profiteering anal little boats go to the ships ant the Russians drop diamonds. firearm: andi other valuables to these trader. in exchange for food. The people or these vessels represent the remains O an old aristocracy with no country ti take them though the French expec to send many to Morocco.
 'grhe children were packed witl grown people like sardines on the bil ships coming from Crimea and mos of theim were sick from fatigue, laci of nourishment and lack of sleep Mis- Gu5ther and Miss Hastings (relie workers) went to the ships on boar a United States destroyer and 20 children were tagged with the name of their fathers and mothers, and tn fathers occupation. Many said Father died in Wrangel's army fight ing for Russia The destroye brought the children to the landing ( tho ltrachoma orphanage which is. lc cated right on the Bosphorus re mothers were taken with their yer voting children and babies and tf other children ranged from five to ] years.
 Most of them looked exactly liF well-bred American children. Son car7fed their dolls tightly in the arms and one little boy hugged teddy bear. A boy of 12 carried a sic little boy of eight years because l came from his town in Russia I would not eat until the smaller bt had received soup. Most of the chi dre,1 could speak French.
 "1first the mothers with little babi wefk fed and then the children. fir the girls and then the boys. One b, ate. six bowls of soup and all the eh dren ate as if they were starve There was no noise. no crying, disorder. They were like little SC diers. All the boys removed tho hats upon entering the orphanag The mothers and babies were fir given bath and then the boys a girls"