The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1920-08-13
Dr. Nansen Reports Many Have
Been Away From Home for
Six Years.
TRANSPORTATION IS PROBLEM
Technically Free, Chief Concern Of
captIves 10 How to Got Out Of 81
, beria--Bolsheviki Aiding In
- Their Return.

London--The lost tribe OF Israel may
have Its counterpart In the 100000 or
sn0re Germans, Polish, Czecho-Slovak,
llioumnnian and Jugo-Slav prisoners In
Siberia, together with like number
OF Russians I'm Germany. Eighteen
smonths after the signing OF peace they
arc still "lost." DR.. Frldtjof Nansen,
tho Norwegian explorer and one-tlme
rsni,lster to the court of st. James, Is
In London, after having undertaken an
Investigation of the condition of lost
s,rlsOners nj the request of the League
OF Nations, Some Of the prisoners,
Doctor Nnnsen found, have been away
from their homes for six years.
Krassin. the representative Of the
soviet government now In London,
will be asked to obtain assurance from
that government relative to the rcpa-
sriation of the exles.
'IiOw many prisoners there are still
no be returned" said Doctor hansen,
'S'po one can tell. for they undoubtedly
Include many who have been written
, on as missing or dead. Probably there
sare 100000 to 10000 In Russia and
Siheria-includlng Germans, Austri-
ans, Hungnrlans. Poles, Czecho-Slo-
walks. Rumanlans and Jugo-Slavs-
and, roughly. the same number Of Rus
SLAMS IN Germany. or the former
tyhcrc are some thousands In Turkes-
van, and to extricate them Is the hard
est problem Of all.
/, Transportation Chief Difficulty.
MANY Of the prisoners In Siberia
orc trying to get home on their own
account--for they are technically free /;
she transport difficulty Is the only i'm
3,ed,mcnt--walking working now and
Shcn TO earn little money. getting
snn few miles by train where they
can.
"rhe trouble with the men In 81
iberia was that they did not know
(which direction TO take. They saw
tho Czecho-Slo going toward vlad-
!vostok, and heard that some OF them
Mad got home that way. 80 others tried
40 follow tteir example Some Of
ihasc furthest east are concentrating
around Vladivostok-the Germans
hnve got number of their own men
sut that way In Japanese shlps--but
conditions there are much disturbed
and instructions have been sent by
the soviet government to all prisoners
eircady west OF Irkutsk to make their
Ssy westward to Moscow as best they
csp."
Z The Vladivostok prisoners, Doctor
EanTcn explained, II is hoped to re-
patrlatc In French and American
sSi,ips, but IL Is Imperative that this
should be done at once. so as to get
.rhnm through the Red sea before the
Got season.
what Is the attitude OF the soviet
government In the matter?" Doctor
Nansen was asked.
BolshevikI Aiding Return.
y "Thcy are really behaving extreme
Wy we'll" he answered. "They are ex-
srcmely anxious to send home the
prisoners they stIll hold, and despite
their difficulties Of transport they are
Seeding trains of prisoners regularly
from Moscow, through Petrograd to
Norva, on the Esthonian frontier
where an exchange Of prisoners from
.Germany and Germans and others
from Russia takes place.
~ 'rhcre Is an old fortress, there, used
as a depot and dislnfectfng station,