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Show RUSS CHILDREN " AT HOME PN j I Six Hundred Who Made Trip Around World With Red Cross Finally Arrive A VJtBpRK, I'inland. hoc. 18. Six , hundred of the EtpssVan children f mm the I'etrogr.id colony whom thfij American Red ( 'ross brought from Siberia by way of the United States 'have completed their trip around the j i world and will spend Christmas in I j their homes. The fifth group of thej (repatriated children reached Petro- I grnd vosterdav and onlv 164 out of the total of TM now remain In Finnish Fin-nish territory. Since thi arrival of tho children in Finland scores ot them have received letters from relatives rela-tives In soviet Iiussla urging them to return as soon as the.v possibly could. The journey of the children from I llallla to the Finnish borde! was made j by special train and sledges through deep snow drifts long before daybreak. I Cpon their arrival at the frontier ) the American officers in charge of the children were met by a committee commit-tee of the parents assembled beneath a white flag marking the Russian I border line. The children crossed in I single file. The Russian commissar j was handed the list of the children , j and was asked If he wished to check 1 them singly. He replied that he preferred pre-ferred to check them in bulk "as I! have lots of other work to do." he I said. A receipt was then given and the children put aboard a EatrogTad luln' I which started south Immediately. |