Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-03-04 | Page 10 | Girl Flees for Months to Escape Horrors of European War

Girl GirI FI Flees e for for Months 1 to to Escape Horrors of European Vv War V r CHICAGO March 4 A A story of an eight months' months flight to escape the terrors terrors terrors ter ter- ter- ter of war was told here today by Golba a year sixteen Russian girl who made the journ Journey y from Vilna Russia Hussla to Chicago alone The The flight began last July when German German Ger Ocr man and aeroplanes began bombarding bombarding bom born barding villages in the vicinity of Vilna VUna and was continued across frozen Si SiberIa Siberia Si- Si beria berm to Japan and thence across the Pacific to th the United States On the first day the child said she became separated from her mother with whom she the had started and from whom she has Jias not heard since She t told ld of nights nighta spent alone In Russian forests where she did to escape the soldiers and of the long long- journey across Siberia for which she spent the money her mother had given her and of h her hr r final appeal to the American consul in Yokohama who arranged her transportation to Chicago S The girl irl formerly lived here leaving here with her mother ten years ago Attempts to find her father whom she believed to bo be living here thus far have been unsuccessful but former neIghbors neIghbors' neighbors neigh neIgh- bors hors of pet iez parents have given her I refuge