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Show RUSSIAN GIRL WITH GOLDENHAIR SAFE "Daughter of the Embassy" Is Unharmed THE HAGUK. March 15. Word has reached one of the aecretarlea of the American legation here that Vera Mels-nr. Mels-nr. the golden-hnlred Kuaaian girl of H. who was "daughter of the embassy" when the American embassy to Rua-ala Rua-ala waa located In bolnhevik Infeated Vologda, is alive and aafe In Germany. To the allied diplomatists who left Vologda In July. 1J1S. going hastily to Archangel, the fate of this very beautiful beau-tiful Kuaaian girl haa been, until now. one of- the unsolved Ruealan mysteries. - IMughter of a Russian general. Vera waa brought to the first reception given by Ambusaador David R. Francis at Volofrda. After that ahe ran Into the embassy dally, playing the piano and singing and furnishing the only bright moments during the lung and troubled months when the allied diplomatic corps wss constantly engaged in wearylne struggles to maintain Itself in the bolshevik city. Hha became practically the hoaieaa at ths embasay. Ambassador Francis treating her as a daughter. When the allied diplomatic train pulled out of Vologda for Archangel, in July,-191s,-and It was Impossible for Vera to go wtth her friends, ah clung tearfully to is rails of th Americnn car. y Knowing that man? of the "aristocrats'" "aristo-crats'" and "bourgeolal" of Vologda had been massacred by the bnlahevlkl a few weeks after the ambassadors left, friends of the girl had given her up for lost. According to advices Just received, re-ceived, both ahe and her parenta escaped es-caped and made their way to relatives in Germany. |