dun, 3, Havine been very recently before the public in the guise of a hoggur, the '*North-China Daily News" hesitates to importune' readers further. But it cannot refrain from calling attention to the letter from Mrs. Desnitzky-Stone, which appears on another page toxlay. Directly concerned with the orphans under Mme. Dieterichs's care, it. indirectly Presses the mute claim of all Russian refugee children, at the time of the approaching Russian Christmas, January 7. The compassion that "both cases! arouse is wholly devoid "of the controversial aspects which have disfigured other discussion concerning the refugees. It would be impossible to imagine an institution more free from political taint than Mie, Dieterichs's orphanage. She has collected these children as if they were lost dogs and, greatly daring, has made herself responsible for them with a bravery worthy of all admiration. What they may do in self support they are only too anxious to do; and somehow they struggle along. It would surely be pleasant to brighten their Christmas. Even more urgent is the appeal of the Russian children who come under the notice of -the Refugee Relief Advisory Committee. This Committee has a soup kitchen where meals are served to the most necessitous, but its resources are very slender. ° A few days ago! we were told that the Committee! hoped to be able to do something for Russian children when their Christmas came, but the utmost hope did not apparently go beyond giving each of them a bit of bread and an orange, in addition to the usual broth, Here again one is sure that Shanghai would like to make the children's Hfeast a little less that of the Mme. Desnitzky-Stone's address given with her letter: she is the channel for Mme. Dieter-uch: hilden. For the others. any contribution sent to the Re. fugee Relief Advisory Committee, 5A North Soochow Road, will be greatly welcomed and well used.
Turning to the larger question' of Russian refugees generally we are glad to learn that good news has been received by the Committee just mentioned from the party of forty-six Russians whom repatriated in the latter part of October.
'The latest report of them is from Omsk, some ulready in their old homes, others well on the way thither' It is interesting to mention that one man had no intention of going to ria, He merely wished to take advantage of the cheap trip riflered to get to Harbin; and when he found there was no means of evading the guard set over the party and that he had to go on to Manchuli, he was [much upset. His father, still in Shanghai, invaded the offices off }the Advisory Committee; denouncing its members measure terms. Later on, however, & wher letter came from the Son, written from Irkutsk, full of praise of the manner in which he had. been treated by the Soviet officials and bidding his father to tell all refugees to come back to their homes as soon as possible. Unfortunately, the refugees have no money nor has the Refugee Relief "Advisory Committee. One group of about fifty men' from' the ill-fated Eladorado recently managed get as far as Changchun, going vii Dairen, whence the' Chinese authorities promptly pushed them on to Manchuli. But the Japanese officials at Dairen will not allow any more Russians to go that way, without a guarantee from the Relief Committee in Shanghai, which the latter is in no position to give.
'There appears no doubt that the influx of refugees is at last subsiding. Until recently they were continually arriving by nail, river and sea, and from every conceivable' direction Hankow, Hongkong and Manila a well a5 from the north. Partly this was due to the breaking up lof the concentration camps at Kirin and Gensan, whence the refugees were pushed out to go whither they would and, it would seem, with nowhere but Shanghai where they were not moved on. These supplies appear to be coming to an end.and We do not understand that there fare any further gefagees from!
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.