WHITE RUSSIAN ESCAPEES
NO REFUGE IN JAPAN. (United Press Association— By. Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received November 24, 1.5 P-™-KOBE, Nov. 23.. Public interest has been aroused m the case of twenty-one Ku sians who escaped from detention camps on the coast of a maritime P , vince in small fishing boats and landed at Hokkaido after great hardships. They were placed under a heavy gnaru at Hakodate while the local authorities negotiated with the Soviet representative, agreeing to the latter ® demand to repatriate them. the Whites protested, asking for deportation to Manchuria. The Nationalist leader, Mr Iwata, belonging to the Nippon Patriotic Society, pleaded vainly with the Home Office, which refused to interfere. Eventually the prisoners were shipped in a Soviet steamer to Vladivostok. The Hokaido authorities were shocked on hearing that the deportees will be shot oil their arrival in Soviet territory.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 306, 24 November 1932, Page 2
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