It is reported that there have been about 7,000 such deportations. The Vladivostok government at present is under military control, acting under orders from Chita. Their policy seems to be to remove everybody to Russia whose sympa-thios are not entirely with Soviet Russia. Being a frontier town and the relations with Japan being still doubtful, a fact which is very much impressed on them by the presence of the Japanese cruiser in the har-_bour, they are naturally anxious {to run no risk of anything being done by their subjects that will cause diplomatic difficulties. Naturally some hardships will arise, as little time is given a person to close up his affairs. spoke to one woman whose husband had been recently sent back to his home somewhere near Moscow. She was not at all perturbed about it and was expecting to hear from him as to when she could follow him.
But what about these wholesale eapeutions ne hear about?
You can forget about them. Punishment for crime in Siberia is of course done with a heavy hand. Criminals, like highway robbers and so on, have short shrift; they are taken out and shot. The consequence is that one can walk about any part of Chita at any time of the dhy or night and feel perfectly safe. It is the rough and ready justice of the pioneers which has usually been pursued by the pioneers in our own jeany days and in the early days of America. There is nothing sinister to be deduced from that.
What ts the condition of the'have the Siberia train and line?
The usual weekly express running through every Friday from Chita to Moscow. I went through the train and found it clean, but the coaches were not so good as the old state express. I met several men in Chita who had revival.. I wis in the principal come through from Moscow; they November 21.
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