REFUGEES FROM RUSSIA
WANT TO SETTLE IN CANADA NOW IN GERMANY BERLIN. Monday. The first party of peasants which was permitted to leave Russia/ consisting of 244 adults and IS7 children, lias arrived at Sydtkuhnen, PrussiaTwo other detachments, totalling 900, are due by tomorrow. The German Government is finding accommodation until their future is decided. The majority are Mennouites, but their places of origin are widely separated, ranging from the Volga to Siberia. Turkestan, the Caucasus, and the Crimea. It is noted that although the families have been settled in Russia for 150 years they speak faultless German. The majority wish to go to Canada.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 837, 4 December 1929, Page 9
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