UNSETTLED CHINA
PLIGHT OF RUSSIANS. USED AS STORM TROOPS. Mr R . E. Coomber, who returned to Sydney from Ohina recently, spent some time in Nortliern China, where he was able to observe some of tlie distressing conditions in that unhappy land. Althougli there had been no Government for many months, all the essential services were working. This was in a large measure due to the foreign officials employed in tliese services. Many of these officials are irregularly paid, and their salari'es are sometimes eight or nine months in arrears. Mr Coomber said he fonndl tliat there were many Russians in Ohina, most of them living in abject poverty, and forced to compete with the Chiiie.se for a bare living. Their women f'olk often have to beg foi' subsistence. Marshal Chang-tso-lm had enlisted many of the Rnssian refugees, and used them as storni troops. Tlie foreign residents in Clhina did all they could to help tbe Russians in their distress. This was done not onlv for charity's sake, but also to stop them from thieving, to which tliey might be driven through hunger.
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Marlborough Express, Volume LX, Issue 232, 1 October 1926, Page 3
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182UNSETTLED CHINA Marlborough Express, Volume LX, Issue 232, 1 October 1926, Page 3
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