Impressions of a Traveller who Has Just Made the Journey From Europe A dislike of all that pertains to the Soviet regime and the difficulty of obtaining knowledge of actual conditions in Russia to-day owing to the rival floods of propaganda, must inevitably deter people from going Home by the Siberian route for a long while to come. Increasing numbers, however, will be determined to make the venture, and for this reason first-hand impressions of travellers are particularly interesting.
Dr. J. T. Proctor, of the Associated Mission Treasurers, who has just returned from Europe by this route, interviewed by the "North-China Daily News" on Thursday made this reassuring statement: 'I would not hesitate to go through with my wife and family. Travelling, of course, is not yet de luce; but I was only nine days on the journey from Moscow to Harbin.
The cost—$12 (American currency)—is but a few dollars more than in pre-war times." His impressions gathered on a journey from Helsingfors to the Far East are as instructive to the students of Russian affairs as to intending travellers.
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