Feb, 5.
Ir is most satisfactory to see that public feeling is being roused on behalf of the three hundred odd Russian cadets in Jessfield Road. So far back as on December 18, if the recollection may be allowed, we urged that ithe case of these boys called for special consideration, constitute ing a problem quite apart from that of the ordinary refugee and one that it was impossible to ignore. The unvarnished account which we published last week of how the boys are living in the premises obtained for them cannot but have helped to excite compassion. But the growth of public opinion is curious and unaccountable, for which very few of us have the right to claim any credit. The main point is that it is there, that there is a general feeling that it is impossible to leave the boys to be dragged up anyhow as they are at present; and although it would be premature to speak of any definite scheme having yet been formulated, we may believe that this feeling is shared by those commonly called the authorities as much as by the public at large.
At present the boys have a roof over this heads and their teachers are working bravely to keep the classes together, but very little more can be said. Their food, at an estimated allow ance of twenty-five cents a day per boy, is obviously of the most Spartan nature; they have little or no bedding or furniture and they are very short of school
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