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BEHIND the polished

speeches of the statesmen at the Evian Refugee Conference there looms a ́spectre- the spectre of the Home- sick Millions.

You will not find the land where the Homesick Millions live in any atlas, nor will you find their numbers in any year-book. For they are scattered all over the globe.

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Dre the

victims extraordinary craze, never known before in history, which has swept the world in the last twenty years.

A craze which impets nations to solve the problem of people they do not happen to like by casting them out of their homes and ending them to wander over the earth..

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, ·

TUESDAY,

SEPTEMBER

The

Four

By

C. A... LYON

Arabio, India,

Malayo and China, the up to Inr-off Vladivostok, where NEW realise how great

Was ntill { non-Bolshevist movement is. Since the there end of the war four million men, Russia in existence. women and children have had to leave the lands they called home, pack up and fee.

They include:

1,500,000 Russians from Russia 1,500,000 Greeka from Turkey 350,000 Armenians from Asla

Milnor

120,000 Bulgarians from Greecen 25,000 Assyrians from Iraq 135.000 Jews from Germany. Besides thousands more Italians, Spaniards and Hungariana,

Nothing Like It

For 1,500 Years

Now these movements will be unique und sorrowful page in the world's history,

The French aristocracy which had

When Vladivostok fell they had

to go a-wandering ngalo. I cannot tell you what the end of them was. any more than I can tell you end of many another wandering band out of the millions.

the

TH

THEN

the

across

there were Siberlan death trains. Thousands died of disense and hunger on these trains as they crawled thetr the steppes, bearing! packed loads of refugees to China,

Those Russians who did reach China-they numbered more than 100,000-were, and are, among the most wretched of all who quitted their homelands.

Tolling beside coolics, and living like them, many of the women fallen to almost Inconceivable de-

to leave France after the Revolution gradations, they just eke out enough numbered only a few thousands. to keep alive from the border pro- vinces to which Soviet wrath drove them.

The Huguenots who fed from France numbered only 200,000,

The Jews banished from Britain

In 1290 mumbered only 16,000.

There has been no forced displace- ment of peoples such as we have had

Russians who

There were 135,000 filed by the south, across the Black Sea from the Crimea.

in the last twenty years since the Died On The Iiuns and the Tartars swept Info Pavements

Europe one

years ago.

and

half thousand [1

They crowded into Constantinople And the shadow of the four in 1920, sleeping in barracks, in malitions and thele varied fates in the cellars, in the streets. They died of background of the Evian conference. hunger on the pavements.

No

J

one as yet has adequately told the story of these 4,000,000 people.

I will try to tell you in a few short paragraphs a little of the tragedy he will have to portray.

Epic March

Of 14,000 Men

Let us begin with the one and n half million fleeing Russlans.

power

They wore dumped in ports and on Inlands all over the Near East while the Allies tried to think what to do with them, as the statesmen at Evian are trying to do to-day.

STRANGE

fates them. Three

World's

Million

Wanderers

WHITHER?-War-weary Spanish women and children refugees, laden with bedding and other domestic belongings, fee from Spain:

awailed tried to make a home in Bulgaria, thousand arrived at Bizorla, in, French. Tunisia, where they were not wanted.

Exchanging steppes for the desert The Little Ship they enlisted in the foreign legion.

Some settled in Corsica, some in South America. Some, as might

That Leaked

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1938.

handled a plough in his fe before who are partnera in a farm. Whole Streets

Of Russians

There are, or were, French amall holders who are primitive Kalmucks from wild Mongolin, who worship Buddha and are effelent milkers.

The landlords supply these strange refugees with everything they need, but they speak ittle French and they have to walt months, for the periodical visit of the Government inspectors to make a request for such simple thing дя some extra sfucepans.

In three districts of Paris there are whole streets where none bul Russians live. They are poor, and their average 'earnings night be only £6 a month.

the

Round the gates of the great Citroen and Renault motor factories you will often hear little but Russian spoken, so many are

Russlan workers there.

Near the goods depot of the Eastern Railway there was, a few years ago.

men

a strange colony of soldier retugees.

All day long offers and worked side by side as equals, load- ing and unloading the trucks.

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In the evening they went back to old Russia. They had rented building which they used as a bar- racks, Milltary discipline and dif ferences of rank were observed and salutes again, Heels clicked were exchanged.

And all that is only the story of the Russians.

Driven Into

The Desert

There were the Armenians in Asia Minor. The Turkish soldiery round- ed up uriales of them in their villages and drove them like cattle into the desert. Anything from 60 per cent. to 30 per cent. of the long stumbling columns died on the way.

ALL the world hoped that when the first rush of post-war refugees had subsided the

There were the Greeks who poured out of Asia Minor when the Turks Look Smyrna, They were shot and The 1,700 left by sea In Afteen bayoneted as they waited In walling

not masses on the quays. small craft, bound they knew

Twelvo thousand people wero where.

They landed in Korea, but the burned to death when the city was authorities would not have them, set on fire. They tried a second port with the some result. They tried Shanghai, To get rid of them the authorities but the Chinese would not have them have been expected from the crazy had given them When the Soviets rose to

valueless papers, either. in 1918 hordes of soldiers and were shipwrecked. peasants and their families fled north,

into Turkey. They had set out with Indles, these Russians. A typhoon

again. south, cast and west. Amazing things For years many of them drifted three days provisions. They had struck them near Sumaira and some their homes would never be practised of the ships were wrecked or But it was not to be. Rather did happened.

hither and thither in the world look been at sea six weeks.

the custom spread from country to Ing for a billet. A striking and There was the

Their little ship was leaking badly. After repairs they put into Manila, country, cach decade bringing its new epic march of typical case came under the notice

at faal, instalment of miseries. General Tolstoy's 14,000 men along of an acquaintance of mine who was The Turks wanted to pump it out in the Philippines. There,

After a little pause Spaniards be- the shores of the Caspian Sca, on a visit to Constantinople in 1025, and send them to sea again, but the the American authorities took pity on

Disease-ridden, hunger-tortured, five years after the Russian torrcat only pump, belonged to the captain them. They were embarked in an gan to troop out of Spain before the

of a British ship, and he was too army transport. After eight months wrath of Primo de Rivera. ragged, they retreated hundreds of was supposed to have subsided.

kind-hearted to let them borrow it. of wanderings they finished up in And then Italions were trooping

What happened to the 185 Russlans San Francisco. There they found out of Italy before the wrath in the end? No one knows.

work and settled.

to

crowded tubs in which they sulled, which they were told would get them They satled on and on to the East cruel custom of turning people out of

THEN there was the voyage of 1,700 refugees from

miles across the bare steppės

She heard a commotion on a bench Fort Alexandrovsk.

near the city, Four-Arths of them died on the A Bite Ashing smack, almost way. Somehow those who were sinking under the weight of the 105 left reached Basra, of the Persian hungry Russians who were crowded Gull, and put themselves under the into her, had arrived at the beach.

Vindivostok. protection of Britain.

The refugees were put in a kind of pen

the beach while the After this port fell to the Soviets Turks decided what to do with them, their opponents, knowing they would

It appeared that the voyagers had get no mercy, fled far and wide.

Britain, not knowing what to do with them, shipped them all round

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