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Show YOUNG RUSS REFUGEES DISLIKE TRIP TO FRANCE NEW YORK, Sept. 3. A formal protest 3lgned by about -Juu of the 78" Russian children at Port Wadsworthl against being taken to l'rance on their way io Petrograd to Join their Families, has been sent it. the American Red Cross, It was learned. Agitation again:,t this step was re-! centiy started by Ludwig C. A. K Mar-' ti ns, "ambassador" from soviet Russia, Miss Helen Todd, of the civic club throug.i whom the protest to the Red I Cross became known, also had Inter-1 tsted bergelj m the movement to havel U-C child) en i;o direct to Petrograd. She annoiin. e l an indignation j nude V'OUld he held In behalf of the dlssat-' isded youngoters. Major H II Allen of I he lied Cr OSS I said the children were t sager to get to Russia that they had lost almost .ill Interest in the sight-seeing trips1 irranged for their entertainment Me stated the Red Cross hud found It highly Inadvisable to send the rofu-l gees to Petrograd direct because ofi the approaching winter an.l unsettled i condition generally in then- native Io ml |