The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-10-14
ARISTOCRFTS OF
RUSSIA PEDDLERS
Once Naughty Officers OF Old
Regime Are Now PenniIess
in Turkish Capital.
ONE TRAGEDY OF GREAT WAR
Every Street in ConStantinople Is
Crowded With Refugees From Rus
sia--Wlves and Daughters in
Menisl Occupations.

Constantinople- Russia was
mighty nation under her czars it was
the Slav dream To march into CoaStan-
tinople.
Wen. the Russians in their thou
sands have reached this city. but their
presence means not a triumph hut one
Of the great tragedies Of the aftermath
OF the war.
The allies. and especially France.
backed and financed a number of at
tempts on the part of Russiars 20
break down the BOlshevist government
and substitute one that would do bust
ness with western Europe.
The last Of these mercenary armies
was the one led by General Wrangel.
who at one time was master of the
Crimea.
But Just as soon as the BolSheviks
secured peace with Poland. they
smashed Wrangel to smithereens. The
Crlmea witnessed one Of the greatest
scrambles in history.
Soldiers and their leaders. civilians
and their wives and families. clamored
for ships To take them away 'before
the avenging BOlshevfks came in.
The vessels which were finally sup
piled for the refugees were jammed
beyond human endurance.
Filled With Refugees.
Thousands of the survivors of this
page OF recent history were brought to
ConsJantinople.
Every street i'm COnstantinOple is
crowded with them. Near this city
you may see broad-faced MongOlians
!, aaa- Kalnluek. .Tartars. who-were>on
in wrangel's army, working on the
railway tracks.
In the city itself the Russians have
largely turned TO peddling.
Their wives and sisters and daugh-
ters have taken 10 waiting In little res
taurants or washing dishes or scrub
bling floors or doing family washing.
Mary 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 If y9u see them with coats but
toned up 10 the neck. you may know
that they have neither shirt nor un-
derShirt 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 i'm the
ears army and later in Wrangers
forces still go about with their epau-
lets on shoulders. Often one has a
wieked-looking Russian officers dagger
at his side
IL 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 considerable period the French
authorities undertook 10 feed the 1OO.-
600 Russian refugees, the only stipua-
tion being that they should seek work
10 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 10 main
tain them i'm idlenesS. The result was
that the French felt compelled 10 with
draw all assistance and allow them to
shift for themselves.-Milton Bronner,
iH Chicago Post.