Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-07-15 | Page 23 | Moscow Police Free City from Wild Children

9 MOSCOw M SCOW r POLICE u I FREE CITY ClIf fR FROM M WILD CHILDREN Urchins Rounded Up and Placed in Soviet Camps Schools MOSCOW July 14 United Press One of the most characteristic characteristic- and aba elements annoying ot of MosCOW'S Mos Mos- cows cow's population In the years re-ars has been conspicuously I absent In the last few months The flocks of ragged homeless I urchins are for the time being out of the capital Only a few may maybe maybe be seen as a reminder ot of the recent Past and possibly as harbingers of ofa a 11 new spring Invasion The Tho homeless 1 children were gathered gathered gath- gath ered In by tire Moscow authorities at one sweep In for the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the sovIet revolution Everybody prophesied at the time tinse that they would be bak ba again soon but thus tar far the prophesy pro has failed The story ot of how the police drew drewa a net around the untamed youngsters youngsters young young- is In itself a curious com comnien- comnien men men- tary on Moscow life liCe On a previous previous ous occasion a roundup had been attempted The Tho news had spread quickly among the children and when the night set for the arrived there were no children to be captured They lied had all fled she city only to return when the tho danger danger dan dan- ger was over But just before the last cel bla tion with thousands of foreigners pouring Into the red citadel the authorities changed their s. s Their preparations for the roundup were made with utmost secrecy One nIght the janitor of ely e in Moscow received recel a 11 p notice to appear In the local station at a stated hour The fanI- fanI an- an tors-or tors chairmen of the house louse rota- rota unaware that thousands thousands thou thou- sands of others had received tho same notice appeared fearing the worst There are merable regulations on which they might have offended the law When hen they found that their heir neighbors had been called also breathed more easU easIly The plan was laen ihen disclosed to them for tor gathering In the homeless children that very nry night nig Every person for fora a house was Instructed to capure the children who echo mIght ha ba In his lIs hallway or on his doorstep at a a. definite hour In the ot of the night and to bring theta them forthwith to Usa police They were wera to so keep the pl plans ns and the hour secret seret At the appointed time the vast majority of the were thus put into the hands of the TJ The rest fled Those captured were put Into Schools and camps How many of them remain there 1 se- se emans e- e maths mans to be seen But In any event e Moscow has ha had a respIte Irons fram its pathetic nuisance