WHEN PARENTS FLED

Evening Star, Issue 21503, 30 August 1933, Page 2

WHEN PARENTS FLED

INFANT DAUGHTER LEFT IN RUSSIA REUNION IN NEW ZEALAND DIFFICULT (Pi* United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, August 30. It was stated recently that the reunion of a Russian child with her parents in New’ Zealand, after a separation of a dozen years, should take place within a few’ months. The parents were refugees from the Russian Revolution. They had to leave their infant daughter w’hen they escaped through China with the older children. The family found their way to New’ Zealand and settled at Foxton. ' Now. a letter received Mr Galloway, general secretary in New Zealand of the Red Cross Society, from the secretary of the League or Red Cross Societies, Paris, makes it doubtful whether the child, Galena Bogatiroff. will be able to come to New; Zealand as soon as expected, the Soviet Government asking £IOO for a passport and £BO for passage money. Representations have been made to the Minister of External Affairs, who cabled His Majesty’s Government requesting that the British Ambassador at Moscow be asked to urge the Soviet Government to waive or reduce, on humanitarian grounds, file £IOO for official permission to leave the country, in order that tin child might be reunited with her parents. Owing to the arrest of the child • aunt, who had been looking after her Mr Galloway said matters had becoim even more complicated.