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Show uu BUSS KIDDIES ONM HOI Nearly 800 Expected to Pass Through Here on Route to Petrograd Red Cross workers of Orrden will begin be-gin preparations next week for tho arrival of nearly 800 Russian chll- i dren, who are expected to pass thru Ogden from San Francisco en route I from Vladivostok to Petrogr.id. where, j It 1 hoped, they will be returned to their parents anil relatives. When the revolution moved toward Its height in Russia many fathers' and mothers of Petrograd gathered their children Info groups of twenty to a hundred, with nurses and teachers teach-ers and s?nt them into the peaceful, rich acres of Siberia "for a few months, until tho trouble has blown over." Time came for the little wanderers to return to their parents. But, In the meantime, a barrier of fire had risen between them; a dead line formed of the entire battle fronts of the op-poeed op-poeed Itolshevlkl and Czech armies. When hunger and wor terrors confronted con-fronted the vvanderes tho American Red Cross took over group after group, established colonies In Western Siberia and ipparently solved the problem pro-blem .'f f. edlng and housing Its young chirges. Hut as the battle line swayed mid 'he Knlshevik captured town after af-ter town where American Red Cross activities were in full operation, the hildren were moved to Vladlvpstok. thousnnds of miles awav. Thence they were taken to Russia Island. Here they were riven the best of care un- i til they left on the Yomel Maru for' San Francisco. The colony had a dental clinic, a hospital and primary school classes, j Thirteen .f the larger girls look a, course of training filling themselves I to become nurses aids In the American I Red Cross hospital. Some of the children Included In the group have exceptional qualities of temperament and ability. Several hav e ' fine voices. One little girl, whose mother is a professional dancer, has a marked Klf. for the stage. Still another paints beautifully. The genuls for mechanics possessed by many ol the boys Is shown In their toys, whit- tied out of bits of Wood with wnst-, ever sharp edged tool they can find. |