Their story briefly is as follows, Under a scheme of the Russian Government a number of Polish families were some 20 years ago offered land for cultivation in Siberia, and in the intervening years they have prospered to a very great extent. The refugees now in Shanghai came under that scheme. They had settled in the Amur district, and all had been well with them until recently when Bolshevik forces began to operate in their district. The Bolsheviks made short work of their claims to be left alone to live a peaceable and useful life tilling the soil. It was a case of the men either joining the Red forces or leaving the country.
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