The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-01-21
MILLIONS
RUSSIANS SENT
TO OTHER LANDS
RED. TERROR HAS DRIVEN VAST
NUMBERS OF SLAvS INTO Elk
lie FROM HOMES.
HAVE GONE 10 EVERY COUNTRY
Lesser Hegiras Have Produced Great
Effects on the Populations in Other
Times-Many War Prisoners Are
Still Working for France.
BY RUSSELL rBRoWNING.

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, Jan. 10. (By MaiD Dur
ing the past two years two million
refugees from Russia have invaded
practically every civilized country
and thousands continue to sweep
through the soviet lines and scatter
themselves to the four winds.
Lesser hegiras than the present Slay
exodus have created sweeping ethno
graphic changes in the human race
But aside from the broad racial drama
presented by the Russian depression
the individual stories of many of the
fexiles are rich in human interest, local
color and the stuff that epics poems
are made Of
"A thousand potential Enoch Ardens,
ten. thousand Evangelines, perhaps a
future Ulysses are wandering in for
eign lands. out of touch with home and
family, out of joint with the new life
l Va ah Aiioih Ncubti
An estimate of the distribution of
these refugees is given in report just
issued by the American Red Cross.
The figures do not include any of the
recent Crimean refugees, nearly $780,
| 600 in number, who are already scat
tered over a half dozen near Eastern
i countries:
Poland, 100000; Germany, 10000;
France, $4,000; Austria, 10000; Con-
stantinople, $4,000; Finland, $4,000;
Italy, 10000; Serbia, $4,000; England,
$4,000; Latyia, 10000; Hungary, 5000;
Egypt, 1900; Lemnos, $500; Greece,
$500; Cyprus, 1,5OO;t Bohemia, 1000;
Sweden, 1000; Norway, 1000. Total,
100000. Recent Crimean refugees,
I12s,OoO Titol, 100000.
+ The Red Terror is only partly re-
lsponsible for the hordes Of Russian ex-
lies. Thousands of war prisoners, who
in the Yearly days of the war fought
under the cars banner and were cap.
tured during Hindenburg's victories In
the dismal Pinsk and Pripet marshes,
interned in prison camps in Germany,
and marched over the French frontier
after the arn1istice, to learn for the
first time of the revolution in Russia,
have been the especial objects of for
tunes cruel practical jokes.
Allies Of France when they were
captured men OF no country and non
descript allegiance when thankfully
wished out of French labor camps.
Many of them were sent to the con-
vict camps of French Colonial Africa,
where thousands are still employed in
enforced labor Few of these men
have communicated with home since
they Joined the colors of old Russia.
Many do not even know where they
are or why they are still prisoners of
war. Many dirt hut on the cold
steppes of Siberia, or a peasant cot
tage in the broad lands of South Rus
STA, is masterless or childless, while
it's erstwhile occupant is duly ekeing
out an existence in land that the
homefolks never heard of. s,
The Collapse of Wrangel, as of Deni-
kin and others before him, added
thousands to the Slav wanderers.
Prince Paul Dolgorukov, social and
pqblic sworker, in a private letter from
0ohstantinople, writes that the. posi-
ton of the civilian and military 'refus
ges nthat city are desperate. Hesde.
scribes the conditions in which the
family of former vice president of
the Duma are living. The father and
mother are no longer young, and are
invalids. Their former possessions
are gone. They have found dilapi-
dated hut on the outskirts of Constan-
tinople, without heat and almost roof
less. Here they live while a younger
daughter seeks such small domestic
services as pay enough to provide
scan food for the family.