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Show LIEUT. E. L, ran CABLES FROM RUSSIA j Lieutenant Earl L. Packer, son of 1 Urs. Ellen Packer, of Ogden, with tho W merlcan military commission in Rus- m sin. has arrived at Archangel, in north- 1 ?rn Russia, according to the advices 1 ontained in a cablegram received to- 1 iimy uy mrs. racKer. Tbo young offi- -W cer advised his mother that he also received ten letters and two packages, Lieut. Packer was connected with , the state department at Washington .before the United States entered tha , I war. He was sent to Petrograd as a j secretary in the United Stales cm- bassy under Ambassador David R ', Francis. When the Kerensky regima was overthrown, the American embassy embas-sy went to Vologda, where it remained for a short time and then to Moscow. Tho Americans could not leave the latter lat-ter city until they had secured per- ' mission from the Bolsheviki, who ir. ; turn referred tho matter to the Gorman ' military governor for approval. Tho American embassy and mission, in which Packer was commissioned a , lieutenant, then went to St Petres- I burg and on to Finland; thence to $ SAvedon by rail and to Norway. At k ,g Norwegian port their safe arrival was ; $! announced by tho state department at S Washington. They left the Norwegian ' fjc port for Archangel, and the trip usu : B ally occupying twenty -four hours un- jm der normal conditions, took one month SjJ and twenty-four days. u Lieutenant Packer said in advices Hp1 to his mother recently that he had not Ei heard from "the states" for six montht and then thirty letters came in a ' ffi bunch. - I1 He made Little reference to the cha-otic cha-otic conditions in Russia, on account : jyl of the strong censorship rules In ct tj' feet in that country. ' nn |