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RUSSIAN CHILDREN
COME WITH McCULLY
Anderson Naval Officer Who Was
American High Commissioner at
Sebastopol To Bring Seven
Wards to S. G.

Washington, Jan. 6.-Having OBJ
tanned from the labor department an
order for temporary admission to
the United States of the seven Rus
sian children he has tentatively
adopted, Rear Admiral Newton A.
McCully, former American high
commissioner at Sebastopol, left to-
night for New York to get the chill
dren now at Ellis Island and bring
them to his Washington home. The
admiral said he would deposit i'm
mediately the $4,000 bond required
in the case of each of the children as
assurance that they will not become
public charges and will receive a
proper education.
Admiral McCully plans to keep the
children at his home until their
right in the United States has been
fully established. Afterward he
will take them to his boyhood
home in Anderson, S. c., to introduce
them to his mother who will assume
temporary charge of the children
while the officer is refurnishing and
remodeling his Washington home
for their permanent residence.
Asked if it was his intention
formally to adopt the children, Ad-
miral McCully said that such was
his intention if there were no legal
bar. He had attended, he said, to
all legal matters in Russia connected
with being given custody of the chill
dren. In two cases it was neces-
sary to obtain the consent of one
parent, the officer said, but no diff
ficulty was encountered because of
the terrible conditions in the region
in which the children were living
and desire of the parents to obtain
for their children a new change in
life in the United States.
''These children are but isolated
cases among hundreds and thousands
of similar ones" said Admiral Nc
Gully. ~ did not carefully select the
seven, but when I came away de-
cided that I should do something
and took the first 1 came to, al
though in several cases I had met
the children previously and had be-
come attached to them. There were
three others I wanted to bring, but
one was tubercular, and, knew
would not be admitted to this coun-
try. In another case the. mother
gave her consent to my adopting the
child and at the last moment with
drew it and in the third case. the
mother consented, saying she did not
care what became of the child, but
the father refused to part with it."
Washington, Jan. 6-Rear Admiral
Newton A. .McCully, who is South
Carolinian, born and reared at An
derson, remained in Washington to-
day just long enough to secure au-
thority for the entrance into the
United States Of the seven Russian
children whom he has adopted and
will educate.
In conversation with the represen-
tative of The State, the admiral de-
clined to make an explanation Of
why he adopted the Russians after
their rescue from the Bolshevists,
following the defeat of General
Wrangel.
1t is learned, however, that they
are descendants of aristocratic Rus
slams whose fortunes were depleted
as result of the national debade.
The admiral is not decided as to
where he will educate them, al
though he gives considerable atten-
ton to his old home in South Caro-
lima.
The names of the Russians whose
ages range from three to 19 years
are available, but are unpronounce-
able, and inasmuch as they will bear
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