The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-10-02
IS BARRED RUSSIANS
ARE WITHOUT COUNTRY
REFUGEES, REFUSED ENTRY
TO U. S., FACE DEATH IF
THEY RETURN HOME.
WILL BE SENT TO MANILA
Fate After That Is Up to Bureau of
Insular Affairs. Many Notables, In
Guiding Members of Royal Court,
Doing Mental Work in America.

SluOllS hCLlDSlS VI NOyo4 SSHh ~
Doing Mental Work in America.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal-After
suffering untold hardships and horrors
as the result of the Russian revolu
ton, during which they remained 10y
al to the monarchy; after fleeing
Vladivostok when the Red" army
invaders assumed control; after drift
ing thousands of miles from country
to country trying to find landing
place, being battered by the elements,
starved and facing plague and disaster
at every turn, IS men and three wo-
men are being held at Fort Mcdowell
here for deportation, making them
literally men and women without a
country.
These men and women are part of
the $40 Russian refugee party that
landed here from Manila last July on
the transport Merritt, and the $40
were the remnants of more than 5000
men, women and children who re-
manned loyal to the late Gar Nicho-
Wet government faction. They remain
ed at Vladivostok until the Japanese
evacuated the Far Eastern republic
and the Red forces assumed con-
troll. In order to save their lives the
5000 monarchists fled in IS ships, I'M
der command of Admiral George
Stark, and started in search of new
lands.
Cannot Return to Russia.
The IS awaiting deportation here
have been barred from Japan, China
and the United States, and, they state,
their loyalty to the late car makes it
impossible for them to return to
Russia. 1--WE are not allowed to land
in any country, and if we are sent
back to Russia we will be shot, is
their constant statement to the Unit
ed States immigration authorities
here.
Among the Is Russians ordered de-
ported is Mrs. Lubov Shulgovsky,
who, with her husband, Alexander,
her daughter, Vera, and son, Nicho
las, sought a haven of rest under the
Stars and Stripes. Husband, son and
daughter have been admitted to the
United States, but the mother has
been ordered deported by the imml-
grafton office because OF her radical
views" However, a grief-stricken hus-
band, son and daughter vehemently
protest that Mrs. Shulgovsky is not
radical, and they picture her as mild,
loving helpmate and mother. An ap-
peal taken on the deportation order
of Mrs. Shulgovsky and the other
II refugees has been denied by the
department of labor, and the mother
today awaits the first available trans
port to carry her away,
Two of the others in the group are
being sent back because OF their GRIM
inal records, one because he IS men
tally deficient and the others because
of their radical views, the records
show
available transport is due to sail De
cember 9th. Under the law the army
return these people to Manila,
where its jurisdiction will cease. What
will happen to them after they arrive
in Manila is up to the bureau OF in
sular affairs, government officials here
say.
Mobiles in Menial Jobs.
OF the SOB Russian refugees adj
mitted to this country, many of whom
were army and naval officers, society
leaders and members of the royal
court in the days of monarchy pomp,
many are working in the most mental
positions in this country. Former doc
tors, lawyers and at least one count
are employed as laborers in railroad
repair gang in Washington. Another
count is operating taxi, and practl-
ca1ly all of the women are employed
as house workers.
They brought to this country the
eyewitness stories of the fall of the
Russian dynasty. They told OF the
horrors of the Russian revolution and
stated that the revolutionists cut off
the heads of the car and the. mem
bers of the royal family and burned
the bodies. These heads, they assert,
are being preserved in alcohol IN the
Kremlin at Moscow.
The same fate awaits them if they
are returned to Russia, they assert.