GERMAN REFUGEES
ARRIVAL IN PRUSSIk. [United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—-Copyright.] BERLIN, December 2. The first party of peasants permitted to leave Russia, consisting of 244 adults and IS7 children,' have arrived at Sydtkuhnen, in PrussiaTwo other detachments, totalling nine hundred are due by to-morrow. The German Government is finding their accommodation until.their future is decided. The majority are Mennonites, but their places of origin are widely separated, ranging from the Volga to Siberia, Turkstan, the Caucasus and Crimea. It is noted that, although these German families have been settled in Russia (for one hundred and fifty years, they speak faultless German. The majority of them wish to go to Canada.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 December 1929, Page 6
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110GERMAN REFUGEES Hokitika Guardian, 4 December 1929, Page 6
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