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Show DISTRACTED FATHER ! -SEEKS CAPTIVE eiffl. Fears Russians May Have Sent Her Into Asia as Exiled Traitor. Special Cable to The Tribune. BERLIN, Jan. 22. Baron von Oaten, a wealthy land owner of the district of Mitau, Courland, has asked the German Red Cross to find hla 16-year-old daughter, daugh-ter, who was Imprisoned by the Russians nine months ago, and may have been sent to Siberia. When the drive of the Teutonic allies through Galicia, Poland and the Baltic provinces began, In May last year, the Russians started wholesale arrests of Jews and Russian citizens with German names. The victims were either imprisoned, im-prisoned, driven into the Interior of the empire or deported to Asia. In May a Russian patrol appeared on the estate of Baron von Osten. The Baron and his wife were absent, as they had gone to Dorpat, and the soldiers ransacked ran-sacked the house looking for evidence of treason. The lieutenant in command of the detachment found a diary which contained con-tained entries In German and the daughter daugh-ter of the owner, Baroness Alexandra von Osten, a schoolgirl, confessed to having written the sentences. The entries were entirely harmless and had no relation to the war, but the lieutenant, lieu-tenant, who did not understand German, arrested the girl and sent her to Riga. From there she was transported to Petro- : grad with other prisoners. She was never tried and in all probability has been sent ' to some penal colony in Siberia with other alleged spies and traitors. When the parents of the girl learned of her arrest the grief -stricken father hurried to Pet rograd, but his appeals to the military a utliurities and the minister of the interior were in vain. He was curtly informed that hfs daughter would be returned to him later if she could be found. Nobody seemed to know what had become of her. Almost inar.e from grief, the baron returned re-turned to his estate, which shortly after-wn after-wn rd cy nie into the pnsses.sion of the German troops. Since tht time he re-fie:a-dly h;is tried to tret to I vtrograd to I'l-Mimo the smirch for his child, but he hay not bc..ii able to obtain thp necessary neces-sary iiisfij)nns and has now a ppen lf-,1 to the Carman Ued Cross pocioty. The so-cipty so-cipty wi!l try to locate his (lauciu.-r with the aid .m' the. diplomatic representatives ol' a neutral power. |