EXILES' FROM RUSSIA

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 91, 15 October 1934, Page 11

EXILES' FROM RUSSIA

COSSACKS OF WHITE ARMY

■four .w-iuoinbers of the Russian White Army, who were forced to flee from their country after the Revolution, are through passengers to Sydney by the Makura, which arrived today from San Francisco. They are Cossack trick ridors from.- Hollywood, and they are on their way to fulfil an engagement, in connection with the Melbourne Centenary celebrations. Their names are John Stekletsky, Serge Protzonko, Basle Stadnik, and Paul Panfiloff. In an interview with a "Post" representative, M. Stekletsky said that with a number of his friends he was formerly in tho Wolf division of tho Caucasian Cossacks. As members of the White Army they harried the Bolsheviks for about three years, and finally about 200,000 of the soldiers were forced to flee from the country. They journeyed through the Crimea, and eventually reached the island of Lemnos. The majority went to Bulgaria and Rumania, but some of the Cossacks, including himself, went to Prance, where about two hundred of them formed a troupe of performers. After visiting London the party split up, and, accompanied by ten others, M. Stokletsky returned to Paris, and after many vicissitudes they were engaged by a film company to do trick ■riding iii Hollywood. They have ob-| taiiii'd twelve months' leave of absenco to visit Australia anil New Zealand, and they have the right: of re-entry ioto Hollywood.

11. Stekletsky says that he dare not return to Russia "because there is a. pried on his head.