WHITE RUSSIANS
REFUGEES IN JAPAN
SHIPPED BACK TO SIBERIA
TO BE SHOT BY SOVIET
United Press Association—By Electric Tele
graph—Copyright. (Received 24th November, 11 a.m.) KOBE, 23rd November.
Public interest is aroused in the case of twenty-one White Russians who escaped from detention camps on the coast of the Maritime Province of Siberia in small fishing boats and landed in Hokkaido after great hardships. They were placed under a heavy guard at Hakodate while local authorities negotiated with the Soviet representive, agreeing to the latter's demand to repatriate them. The Whites protested, asking for deportation to Manchuria. The Nationalist leader, Mr. Iwata, belonging to the Nippon Patriotic Society, pleaded vainly with the Home Office, which refused to interfere. Eventually the prisoners were shipped on a Soviet steamer for Vladivostock.
The Hokkaido authorities were shocked at hearing that the deportees would be shot on their arrival on Soviet territory.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 126, 24 November 1932, Page 13
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148WHITE RUSSIANS Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 126, 24 November 1932, Page 13
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