RUSSIAN SETTLERS
LEAVE FOR CANADA
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BERLIN, November 5
. There has arrived at Kiel from Russia a steamer with 323 migrants of German blood, who are the vanguard .of possibly a wholesale migration of ;( |ome of Russia’s best peasant stock. ‘They are the descendants of the German settlers, who were established in Russia by the Empress, Catherine the ,<Great and Czar Alexander the First, who intended them to serve as a model for the native peasantry. Though their example was not followed, they themselves thrived.
Their descendants continued their journey to Hamburg, where they have ■embarked 'for Canada. Before.their departure, they declared that life in rural Russia had be•come impossible. Those on the State Jarms were just serfs.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 November 1929, Page 5
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