GERMAN MIGRANTS
EXODUS FROM RUSSIA. _ ? (By Gable—Press Assn.—Copyright.)BERLIN, December 2. The first party of peasants permitted to leave Russia, consisting of 244 i adults and 187 children, have arrived at Sydtkuhnen, in Prussia. Two oth- t er detachments, totalling 900, are due by to-morrow. .. The German Government is finding ' them accommodation until their future is decided. The majority are Men- ' nonites, but their places of origin are widely separated, ranging from the Volga to Siberia, Turkestan, the Caucasus and Crimea. It is noted that,, although these German families have been settled in Russia, for 150 years, they speak faultless German. The majority of them wish to go to Canada.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 December 1929, Page 7
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