Starving Crew of the str. Mongougai off Woosung: No Soap and Drinking from Huangpu Appalling discoveries were made on Thursday afternoon by the Repatriation Sub-Committee of the Refugee Relief Advisory Committee, who Investigated conditions under which 110 Cossacks are living fon board the str. Mongougai, off Woosung. At one time there were several hundreds of people living on the ship, but the remainder tired of the life' and sought better condi-tious ashore—not with any great success. The rest are secking repatriation to Hailar in Mancharia, where there is work for them to do, and where they may live among their own people.
The Relief Advisory Committee -}who have undertaken this work, repers conditions on board the Mongougai as extremely bad. All the yen axe suffering from" mal-ition, and 15 are seriously ill, One man is in a terrible condition, and lies on bare boards in his tatlered uniform, with nothing over hho but a cotton blanket, There ave absolutely no medical supplies on board, there ix enoweh to make bread for three days more, and enough potatoes on board to Inst three days mor Apart from this they have absolute ly no food. They have left one half ton of coal with which to bake bread, The water they drink drawn from the Huangpu direct and boiled, They have absolutely soap, and both the ship and the men ave verminous—terribly x0, The fault does not lie with them, for it is impossible to keep them: selves clean. They have no baking utensils with the exception of tin eans, and no drinking utensils with the exception of bottles broken half. Their clothes amount to wha' they stand-up in, A number of sick men were brought ashore from the ship w Low days nye, and carried on the bucks of their comrades the 12 miles to Shanghai for medical relief, All are sick and ill from starvation, and all are xious to claim reo Patriation, Members of the com. mittee state that it is practically sending them to their deaths send them up to THailar at the present season without warm clothes, and they anxiously appeal to Shang hai people to help them in. providing them. Clothes which the owners consider too old and shabby. to wear will be welcomed by the retunees, who have practically nothing with which to withstand the coming winter.
It should be understood that the committee are making one his effort and they hope to get all these away from Shanghi lu where they can live under the cond tions to which they are used. is up to Shanghai to help.
Clothing should be sent to the Russian Benevolent Soe Moukong Road, Monetar: [may be despatched to the China Daily News" ce. the Editor, who will see that they reach the proper authorities. All greeds should be plainly marked, to be used by the Cossacks, starving on the Mongougai.
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