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Show REFUGEES PASS THROUGH SWEDEN - Fifteen Thousand Russians, Exhausted, Famished and Sick, Driven From Germany. STOCKHOLM CROWDED Heterogeneous Gathering of All Classes Laborers, Extreme Ex-treme Poor and Business Men Fare Alike. Stockholm. Sweden, via London. Aug L9, 1:06 p m. Fully 15,000 Russian refugees from Germany, most of them exhausted. famished and 9l k. have gone through Stockholm since the beginning of the war. From L500 to 2000 have "arrived daily Hotels, Ho-tels, barracks and schools have been used lor their housing and are filled to capacity every night These unfortunates are a hetero-m hetero-m ueous gathering from all classes 'rhere are wealthy women in furs and diamonds, poor women in rags, with half nukfd children in their arras; priests in caftans. workmen in smocks, and wealth) professional and business men. all of them driven out ol Germany. Anions th refugees arp m number of patients who say thy were driven' out of hospitals in Germany Children were separated from their fathers atid mothers, while mothers lost their children on the way. Husbands in some cases remain prisoners iu Germany. Ger-many. A number of Polish women taking the Mire ai Austrian baths neai the frontier were forced to return by wa) of Berlin and arrived here without with-out money or news of their children and husbands Now Know What Poverty Mean. 1 now, for the first time in my life understand what poverty means, is a common remark made by the Russian millionaires whose pockets were filled with Russian money but who were unable to buy one cent s worth with it until the Swedes at Mai-moe Mai-moe came to their assistance, Rus slan hankers, phvsiclans and professors profes-sors all lell the same story of an exhausting ex-hausting and foodless journey in con-soquence con-soquence ol the Germans refusal to ai cepl rubles. M Armatschew skij. the governor of Kalisse, Russian Poland and a num ber of others, It is asserted, were transported on a train with shaded windows to an unknown place, where hundreds of persons were packed to-gi to-gi ther in a barn for three days. The municipality and citizens ot Stockholm are giving all possible as Blatance to the refugees and those -ent on their journey are provided with rations to take them through Lapland, where there iM be difficulty difficul-ty In finding food for so many thousands thou-sands ol strangers oo |