STORY OF NEGLECT.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3587, 24 September 1920, Page 5

STORY OF NEGLECT.

'CHILDREN UNDER BOLSHEVISM,

Received 8.50 a.m

new York, Sept. 23

A poignant story of the Russian revolution is told by the American Red Cross. Hundreds of devoted'parents in Moscow and Petrograd, in irhc spring of .1918, sent their children for safety to the Urals, but found it impossible to continue sending remittances to the supervisors and nurses and teachers. Gradually, the . children were abandoned, and many lived naked in it he woods on roots and berries, and were unattended and unprotected. The American Red Cross in Siberia [removed eight hundred, who have now arrived in Europe. The Society Is searching for parents, the fate of whom in most cases is unknown. Others are scattered and have long ago despaired of again seeing their children.-

THE FRENCH PRESIDENCY.

M. MILLERAND ELECTED. PARIS, Sept. 22. Opposition to M. Millerand comes from the Left. Many politicians have decided to oppose the new politieal conception with which M. Millerand is identified, whereby the Elysee dictates personal politics to the French Government. Received 10.30 a.m. PARIS, Sept. 23. M, Millerand was elected.