RUSSIAN REFUGEES.

Taihape Daily Times, 3 July 1919, Page 5

RUSSIAN REFUGEES.

PEXNILESS )IILLI()NAIRES. ' SCENES IN CONSTANTINOPLE According to ofticial figures, 16,000 Greek refugees. have, up to the present. time passed through Constantinople from Odessti and the Crimea to be repatriated, and almost as large a number of Russian refugees has arrived, writes a Constantinople correspondent. The Easter’ midnight service at the Russian Embassy revealed the strange medley of classes which, by the evacuation of ‘Odessa, has been suddenly ‘thrown into Constantinople. All classes of refu~ge4es—pl-inees, generals, court ladies, millionaires, and oflticers of all ranKs——Tvllo had been driven cu-t-of their own eountry by the most un-Cllri.stian horde;S_t.lle world has ever known, were. gathered ‘there for the Easter festival. ‘lt inay safely be said that all that remains of the flower of the Russian. aristocracy is to—day in Constantinople. I have seen ex-Ambassadors greatfull_\f thanking British Officers for such little aid as they could give. M. Maroski, once, it is said, the richest man in Russia, arrived here with only £lO in his pocket. C:Lonels of the General Staff, who l1a(': been sweeping the streets of Petl'c-grail, as their; hands showed only too plainly, were «thankful to have escaped with their lives. Eleven ladies, the -"wives Eof offieezxs of the Guards. arrived here in one boat. expecting their husbands to follow them in another. Their husbands were sent to Novorossisk to join Deniliin’s army, and the ladies are here stranded wirthoult elotl1es"or money. One man from Odessa, who owned factor-ies worth ten million roubles has lost his all, and he has no news of his wife and six children, who left before him by a ship bound for another port.

"I‘llero SC'L‘lllS to be more Russizms iii Constantinople than any other nations :Ilit_v. The Allies have l)con"fccding those os board shii). but thousancls who’ have been allowed to land are living. in the town. The hotels are niziking (llSg'l'ilL‘oflll. profits. In some of the‘ sxmlllcr hotels wooden p::«.rtitions have been run up across the larger rooms, and each section is being lot: for five" or si :~:pounrls night. Fabulous prices are bring chargéd on:-1'ywl1e1'c for boots. 'l‘hel'c- se‘cTns to he" no limit to the cupiclifty of the Greek and*Arlnenian? merchanfs. who, fov_.'getful- of their own troubles, in "the past, see a way -of re. cuperating their lost fortunes. The Turks watch it, all with a‘ cynical eye. by’no means displc-asek] that that class of Russian which once cast covetous eyes on Cdnstafitiiioplé has been obligod“gfC~ take refu<_=:o herd from the Bolshcvist; terror. S’