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Show GERMANS HOPE TO EMIGRATETO U. S. I Farming Colony Spokesman Enters Strong Protest Against Living Conditions in Russia. 6 AMSTERDAM, Juno 26. (Mail.) "There is not a single German colonist in Russia who places the smallest faith in the Russian government. Our minds are made up. If Germany does not protect us with a strong hand I there is only ono way out, namely, to & emigrate to the United States or Canada." Can-ada." This is the statement of Pastor Johannes Jo-hannes Schleuning who has come to Berlin representing tho interests of so-called Wolga Germans, a farming colony of 700,000 persons passing es-I es-I tablished along that river After the Brest Litovsk peace, Schleuning Sch-leuning returned from three years banishment in Siberia and made himself him-self spokesman of 2,000,000 German settlers spread over different regions of Russia. According to his statement, the colonists col-onists were incorporated In tho Russian Rus-sian army, first sent to the Russo- German front and then some 300,000 were transferred to the Caucasus, There they underwent terrible suffer- ' ings, thousands died, those staying at ; home had their properties confiscated, confiscat-ed, were reduced to beggary and the Bolsheviki completed their ruin. Wolga colonists now ask to be assisted as-sisted back to Germany or permitted ' to settle In the Baltic provinces. Failing Fail-ing this they intend to emigrate to America, declares Scheluning, who thus places before the German government govern-ment a problem filled with peculiar difficulties. |