FOR CENTRAL AMERICA

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 124, 28 May 1930, Page 17

FOR CENTRAL AMERICA

RUSSIAN COLONIES

Plans for.'the settlement in Central America of large numbers of Russian emigres who are now scattered, throughout Europe are being formulated by Count Boris Dobrzynsky, who has gone to New York following a visit to Washington, where ho discussed his proposal with Government officials.. ' ■ , '

Count Dobrzynsky, who is a large landholder in Poland and who was at one time aide-de-camp to Tsar Nicholas IT., organised last October-the General Agricultural and Colonisation Company, for Expatriate 'Russians, and is ijow giving his,; entire time to this project. Mr. G. Butler Sher.well and Signor Mario Garcia Pena, the South American journalist, are vice-presi-dents of the. company, and in addition to a large groupl of Russian nobility;, the.founders' committee includes the 'names of many prominent ', Americans,1* including. Miss: Anrie Morgan, Mrs.-' John "'Warden, Mrs. Philip Garey, Mrs: Mafius de Brabant, Dr. S.. Martin Seidlin, the Most Rev.. Metropolitan Platon, and Prof. Nicholas: Roerich. ■:> .' "' ■ . v ■ Count Dobrzynsky's plan involves financing the. project through American capital, but before incorporating the company he hopes that the United States Government will sponsor, it.' A number of wealthy Americans, he said, have promised to assist in the financing of the. project .' as soon as the approval of the Government is assured. ' ■. .- • .■ , ' .

Both Costa Rica and Nicaragua, : Count Dobrzynsky contends,. can easily accommodate 25,000 settlers each, and conditions are favourable for the iarge-seale cultivation of the land. . In addition-to the income to be derived from the. sale of these products, he said the company would benefit by rapidly increasing-land values as a result of the settlement. - The company, which/would pay all'expenses incidental to the settlement, wyujd receive 50 per cent, of the day labour wages of each worker unfcil the cost of the."settlement had been recovered. ". .-.•

Many of _ the middle-class Russian, emigres are in a serious condition, Count Dobrzynsky said, unable to find work and living..: the * life of nomads ■in . countries which are already over-populated.