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Show 292 Orphans On Way Back To Polish Home ( Jhildren A wakened on Vessel Ves-sel in New Yrk and Presented Pre-sented With Gifts B Red Cross Folk IWJEW Y IRK I.. n it The 11 steamship Princess Matolka, sailing today for Danzig, has on her passenger list 2l2 Polish or- I ph:ins who are heglnning the last lap of a trip around the world. They fled from their native land two vcars ago to escape stara-tion stara-tion and death in the wake of the Red bolshevist armies, then driven driv-en hard against the Polish force-' defending the capital of that republic re-public The little globe trotters are to be returned to Warsaw, where the Polish government will find homes for them. When the children awakened this morning a hoard the vessel, Red Cross workers were on hand to present them with fft' anil wish them bon voyage. When the children reached Siberia Si-beria in their flight, they were taken In charge by officials of the American rellof society and-sent and-sent to this country by way of Japun From Seattle they were sent to Chicago, where they woro placed In orphan asylums. Almost Al-most two years elapsed before the-completion the-completion of arrangements which will give them homes in Poland. |