Adm, Stark's Men Eager to Gain Admission to U. S.: Health Tests to Be Made Manila, June 5.
'A survey of the condition of the 250 Russian refugees, who arrived hhere nearly a year and a half ago from Vladivostok, is to be made this month by Health Department, and a physician of the United States quarantine service to determin: whether they are qualified to enter the United States. There appear to be little likelihood of the refugees being allowed to land in the United States for many months to come, but Admiral Stark, who led the colony from Vladivostok, expresses the hope that arrangement for admission of most of the Russians may be made.
About a year ago some 600 of the 850 who came here in February 1928 were sent to San Francisco on the army transport Merritt, and reports from them about favourable conditions in the United States have jeansed their friends and relatives remaining here to renew their efforts to reach America.
The colony of some 7,000, headed by Admiral Stark, adherent of the old monarchical regime, was foreed to leave Vladivostok by the Soviet. They took 16 small ships and set out late in 1922 to look for 'a country in which to land. Several thousand were dropped in Korea and other thousands wore left in China, a number of ships being sold route to obtain subsistence. they reached the Philippines, and the number During the last year and a half five more of the ships have been sold, leaving six now at the Olongapo naval station—Reuter's
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