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Show ISS KIDDIES J0IN PARENTS Co-worker in Siberia of Ociclen Doctor Tells of Joyous Reunions Of the Russian children, unom th American Red Cross shipped 'around the world lo gel lo theif homes In $OTiel ilus-ia. nine out of ten mere placed with paTCDtfl "i rel aiives. according to letter received In Ogden bj Dr Brnesl P MilTa from llr. W. T. Barger, who made the journey with ihe children Ir Barger ami Dr. Mills were fe .low workers for the Red Cross in Siberia. Dr. Barger explains in the letter 'that the expedition with the shipload of children took up headquarter1- in a sanitarium, which was built by the former Russian covcrnineni. but ! which Is now operated by the gov-'erninent gov-'erninent of Finland. The sail Itanuin is located near Ihe border. From the sanitarium the Red Cross workers sent nut appeals e.illmi; lor relatives or parents to come forward and get Ihe phlTdreA The doclor ikyi thai 100 letters caine back In the first batch of mall from Russia. "I shall never forget the Intense excitement-" the letter goes on. "Manv ni the children wept for Joy, others for sorrow. Some fainted and others became hysterical." The doctor sns that battles of the children would be taken to the border bor-der and turned over to the soviet commissioners, ihe Red Cross taking receipts ror each child. ' It is sure lonesome withoui them' the doctor writes, "for we had be-come be-come much attached to them. Many were beaut II u I ami attractive." The letter says that the expedition was not permitted U) no Into Petio- . rad and deliver the children personally. per-sonally. At first there was opposition from ihe soviet government, hut later , i ho government guv valuable as- 'slstance. |