The stories from Manchuria of the number of refugees who are making their way overland into China from Vladivostok as a result of the Red occupation of the city have thrown the local Russian community (with the exception of the Bolsheviks, who are indifferent) into something resembling a panic. The Peking community is small an the Russian element in it not too prosperous on the average, and what resources have been available have scarcely sufficed for the relief of the refugees already on our door steps. The heralding of newcomers has inspired a fresh interest in those dependants already with ug and has revealed conditions which, for lack of advertising, few persons in Peking have had reason to suspect.
In the old Russian Mission in the extreme northeast corner of the Tartar City, an institution now without income and already impoverished by the demands upon it, there have been about 90 persons unable to procure work, because of linguistic limitations in most cases, who have been, living almost unclad and starving in monastic cells and in a. peculiarly gloomy cellar, without bedding for the most part, and finding what repose they could get on the stone pavings. Most of these unhappy folk have come overland from Turkestan and among them are at least one general, several colonels and numerous officers of Jower rank who served. one and all, on the German front. There is also a due proportion of women and children.
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