PETROGRAD CHINESE MAY BE DEPORTED Suggestion Is Made as tlie Kesult of Appeals for Improved Conditions. PKTROGRAD, Oct. 6. Appeals for reform in connection with con it Ions among Chinese laborers in Russia are be-hiK be-hiK made by public speakers and a ro i ?iven attention in the press. The co::n-! cil of deputies, through ila labor dupHrt-j in en t. demands abrogation of war labor i contracts, and speakers in the municipal ; council of Petrosxad have snested that the Chinese bore, numbering about 1 1'00. be deported on the prounrt of nvcr-i nvcr-i crowding and a consequent d.iner to general gen-eral health. j The contracts ronrdctl a? objectionable i were made u nder the ;i i; l.o -racy. T br-y j provided that members of 3 party of I borers should be collectively respoiiMMe fur losses caused by actions of lnrii-jvidual lnrii-jvidual members. W'bn a laborer ra.'. away, hts oomradps were compelled to re-j re-j pay t he -on tractor's outlay for recruit -i infi. traveling, lodzin, food, transporting, ! medical Inspection and photographing. I As flights were frequent many Chinese ; found themselves virtually penniless after ! fifteen months of work, as often their entire pay, ary!r.g from oil tn cents a i ia v. was reta ined bv the emplovers as I fines." ' The Chinese are declared to bave proved ; tl.e:r,selves undesirable a- citizen. n l I their economic depencen.-e served :s a pretext, durin? the R":t.;! nof f mi". -r I ill-treating them. T!:pv were suirwd. I beaten, robbed. imprisoned and p.en ' killed, according to lzvesti va. t be nr-I nr-I gan of the council of deputies.