i: WOOSUNG.
When Admiral Stark's flotilla arrived at Woosung there were on board 1,662 '"'White" Russians, men and women, nominally all people fleeing for their lives, though it must be admitted that it is somewhat difficult to believe that there need have been any fear for the many young cadets who were with them. The wholesale massacres which marked the inauguration of the Soviet regime are a thing of the past and, though there may be no justice in the Russia off to-day and though judicial and other murders may be vastly more numerous than they should be in any civilized country, it is extremely doubtful whether even the fanatics who now have the people in so firm a grip would issue a challenge to the world by the wholesale slaughter of scores of mere boys merely because they are "White." There is, of course, the other side that a man with a price on hig head, fleeing from the terrors of the Soviet, would say that he could not leave his son, nephew or ward to be brought up under the Terror's curriculum, when too young to fend for himself.
How near we are to seeing the departure of these ships, or when ther they will ever go away, is something we cannot profess even to guess at. All that can be said is that Mr. V. Grosse, one whom Shanghai can trust, is working now and has been ever since the ships arrived, at the very highest pressure, to do the right and best thing. Ifthe ships can be got away under reasonable conditions, he will do it.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.