Jan. 1.
Comrade Pokhvalinsky, the former Soviet Consul at Canton, and his party left the Colony to-day for Shanghai.
Interviewed by Reuter's corres: pondent prior to his departure, Comrade Pokhvalinsky expressed his thankfulness to the Hongkong Government for all they had done for him and his party during thei sojourn in the Colony. He realised his position and was grateful for' the police protection afforded him.
After his experiences at Canton, the former Consul said, he was very gad that he was returning home. He could not say if he would return to China but, on his arrival in Moscow, he would be under the orders of the Soviet Government and, if they. ordered hin ts leave for China again, he would return, However, he' did not think that he would receive such orders very soon.
Mrs. Bremen, one of the Russian fefugers from Canton, who came jete in the Soviet Consul's party, interviewed to-day regarding her experiences in Canton during the recent communist rising, said that when arrested she was bound with a rope round her hands and feet and led by the neck to prison., The Russian women from the Consulate were bound in pairs,' Mrs. Bremen with the Chinese cook and Mrs.
Vakooloff with a Chinese watchman. All their jewellery and other valuables were stolen after. a. thorough search of their persons.
Mrs. Bremen and the other women in the party have replenished their wardrobes in Hongkong. All of them are suffering from a nervous breakdown and are exceedingly glad that they are returning to Moscow.—Reuter.
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