A TRAGIC FLIGHT

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 6, 8 January 1916, Page 13

A TRAGIC FLIGHT

SOME RESULTS OF KULTUR.

Mt- Stephen Graham has been to Kieff. and seen what flight before the advancing German troop* means to the Russian peasantry. In a graphic article in The Times he says :—

"I ait in an immense waiting-room thronged with people. It is terribly hot and noisy snd depressing. Children are crying everywhere, babies at the breast, babies on all fours crawling r_ long bundles, children of all ages— they are terribly hungry and sleepy. Th« parents sit about with careworn, anxious faces and strained eyes, or, curling themselves tincoutbly about bundles of quilts and clothes, sleep, enore. It is a rainy evening, and the rain beats against the station windows. Thousands of fugitives are waiting at every station, platform, barracks, camping ground. Twenty thousand fugitives arrive every day, and they may not stay.. "They aTe assigned to provinces in the depths of Russia, given free passage in goods\ trains, and. moved away bo as not to impede the rear of the Russian army-, also to relieve Kieff of the tremendous destitution aad to give the unfortunate wanderers a> better chance of starting life afresh. They arrive by the trains, depart by th e trains, arrive in their carts, go in their carte. From the banks of the Dneiper you look down on a never-ending procession of slowlymoving cart-tilts, the fugitives leaving the city, going on. . -You go into the country,'and find the carts wandering along the endless roads and lanes, all. the peasant's goods in a cart, his chairs, hjs tables, hi« ikons, a, cow tied by a rope and following behind. Ask the peasant where he is going, As often as not he does not know."