Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-11-11
ARISTOCRATS OF
RUSSIA PEDDLERS
Once Naughty officers Of Old
Regime Are Now PenniIess
IN Turkish Capital.
ONE TRAGEDY Of GREAT WAR
Every Street ~ conEtantlnople 10
Crowded W Refugees From Rus
sia-W We and Daughters in
f;snisi Occupations.

consfnltinopie.-Khc Russia was
q mighty nation under ler cars II was
the SIay dream to march into mstan-
tinopls.
Well, the Russians In their thou
sands have reached this city. but their
presence means moi triumph. but one
Of the great tragedies Of the aftermath
Of the war.
The allies. and especially France.
backed ana financed a number Of At.
tempts on the part of Russians 10
break down the Bolshevlst government
and substitute one that would do bush
ness with western Europe.
The Inst OF thee mercenary armies
was the one led by General Wrsngei,
who at one time was master Of the
crimea.
But Just as soon az the Bolsheviks
secured peace With Poland, they
smashed Wrangel to smithereens. The
Crlmea Witnessed one of the greatest
scrambies In history.
Soldiers and their leaders. civilians
and their wives and families. clamored
for ships 10 take them away before
the svenging Bolsheviks came In.
The vessels which were finally sup
piled for the refugees we're Jammed
beyond human endurance.
Filled With Refugee.
Thousands OF the survivors Of this
page Of recent history were brought to
Constantinople.
Every street In Constantlnople Is
crowded with them. Near this city
ron may see broad-faced Mongollans
and Kalmuck Tartsrs, who were once
IN Wrsngels army, working on the
railway tracks.
In the city itself the Russians have
largely turned TO peddling.
Their wives and sisters and daugh.
tiers have taken to waiting In little res
taurants or washing dishes or scrub
bling floors or doing family washing.
Many have been forced by sheer
want into immortality.
And there are thousands who have
no visible means OF support. They sell
nothing They DO not work. They SIM
ply walk the streets aimlessly.
Many OF them have shirts but no
coats. II you see them with coats but
tone'l up TO the neck, you may know
that they have neither shirt nor I'M
dershlrt underneath. In this blazing
hot oriental weather many OF them go
about with great. long, heavy cossack
coats whose collars and sleeves are
trimmed with thick astrachan.
shift for Themselves.
Men who were once officers In the
cxnr's army and later In Wrangsl's
forces still go about with their epau-
lets on shoulders Often one has q
wicked-looking Russian officers dagger
at his side.
II would seem that with this great
Influx of one-time soldiers Of adven-
ture, made desperate by want, there
would be great Increase. OF petty
crimes. But the $500 Turkish police
have held crime In check.
For a considerable period the French
authorities undertook 10 feed the 100.-
600 Russian refugees. the only stipula-
ton being that they should seek work
to make themselves self-supporting.
But work was the very thing that the
great majority OF them did not want.
They seemed to think the allies were
under some sort OF obligation to MAIN
tain them In idleness. The result was
that the French felt compelled to with.
draw all assistance and allow them to
shift for themselves.-Milton Bronner,
IN Chicago Post.