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C1558/454/20B/16809/16809/Jacket1 · File · 1929-1931
Part of League of Nations Refugees Mixed Archival Group (Nansen Fonds)

This file contains reports from Nansen Office Far East Representative and other sources on number, causes of displacement, location and living condition of Russian refugees in Manchuria, territory of Barga; actions taken by the Nansen Office, ICRC and other refugee organisations to secure these refugees; lists of victims of massacres in Tsynkyr 3 October 1929 and in Damysowo 28 September 1929; lists of Russian or Russian naturalised Chinese refugees arrested or deported to URSS from Manchuria in November and December 1929.
Newspaper clippings:

  • Slovo Shanghai - 26 December 1929 - Où errent les réfugiés de Triokhrietchie - Trois versions de leurs épreuves
  • North-China Daily News - 24 December 1929 - Russo-Chinese Agreement - Full text of Protocol signed on Sunday: Russia's Terms for ending Conflict: New Managers coming to Harbin to take charge - Conference at Moscow on 25 January - All Prisoners to be released, Consulates reopened and Forces withdrawn on both sides
  • North-China Daily News - 8 January 1930 - Scenes of Devastation along the C.E.R.
  • North-China Daily News - 7 January 1930 - Among refugees of the war zone in North Manchuria: Scenes of mad panic and destruction - A Day at Bukutu not to be forgotten
  • North-China Daily News - 6 January 1930 - Refugees from the war zone of North Manchuria - Vivid tale of the American and Harbin Russian relief expedition: the terrible red aeroplanes - Multitudes driven destitute from homes
  • North-China Daily News - December 1929 - Letter to the Editor from the American Relief Committee, Harbin
  • No name of newspaper - No date - Tampering with Siberian mail - Second case of open mail bags discovered within four days
  • Wremia - 26 January 1930 - Le Consul général du Japon au sujet des émigrants russes
  • Kung Pao - 6 February 1930 - No. 966 - Russian refugees deported from Manchuria
  • North-China Daily News - 5 May 1930 - The sad case of white Russians in Manchuria
  • North-China Daily News? - 24 April 1930 - The sad case of white Russians in Manchuria - Driven from their homes: Pursued by Soviet's hatred: No place for them anywhere - Who will help them to migrate
  • North-China Daily News - 6 January 1930 - Letter to the Editor - The refugees of North Manchuria
  • North-China Daily News - 7 January 1930 - Under the bombs of the Soviet aeroplanes - Among refugees of the war zone in North Manchuria: Scenes of mad panic and destruction - A day at Bukutu not to be forgotten
  • The Shanghai Evening Post - 31 July 1930 - Ministry orders "White" Russian laborers excluded - Jeopardizing Chinese, order avers
  • North-China Daily News - 18 August 1931 - Escape from Russia - Hardships of hundreds of refugees - Treated without mercy
    Some more clippings in Russian.
    Other document:
    Famine Commission Bulletin - Vol.VIII.No.1 - October 1930 - published bi-monthly by the China International Famine Relief Commission
    The Lutheran - 30 April 1931 - The distress in Harbin, Siberia, Russia - Report of an investigating expedition on which United Lutheran Church in America Missionaries from China served
C1532/428/20A/19222/19016/Jacket1 · File · 1929-1931
Part of League of Nations Refugees Mixed Archival Group (Nansen Fonds)

File contains correspondence on the drafting and distribution of the appeal. National Committees were formed in Denmark and Norway for raising money for the Fund in those countries. The appeal document which entitled "Appeal for a Memorial Fund for the Completion of the Humanitarian Work of Dr. Fridtjof Nansen" or the "Nansen Memorial Fund" was signed by H. E. M. Aristide Briand, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the French Republic; The Rt. Hon. Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, K.C.; H.E. Dr. Julius Curtius, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Reich; H.E. Signor D. Grandi, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Italy; The Rt. Hon. Arthur Henderson, P.C. M.P., Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; H.E. Dr. T. G. Masaryk, President of the Czechoslovak Republic; H.E. M. Joh. Ludw. Mowinckel, former Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Norway; H.E. M. E. Venizelos, President of the Council of Ministers of Greece.

Draft document:
C.A.24.1931 - Governing Body 3rd Session - Nansen Memorial Fund
"Appel du Dr. Fidtjof Nansen - Haut-Commissaire de la Société des Nations pour les Réfugiés pour l'obtention des fonds nécessités par la liquidation de la partie matérielle du problème des réfugiés russes, arméniens, assyriens, assyro-chaldéens et turcs"
C.300.M.141.1931 - 13 May 1931 - Note by the Secretary-General (English and French) - Lettre émanant de M. Max Huber, Président du Conseil d'administration de l'Office international nansen pour les Réfugiés

Press clippings:
"Manchester Guardian " dated 22 May 1930 on " Nansen and Armenia - An Obligation that Remains"
"New York Times" dated 14 May 1931 on "The Refugees' Best Friend"
"New York Times" dated 13 May 1931 on "8 Statesmen appeal for Nansen Memorial - Henderson, Briand, Curtius and others seek fund to care for refugees"
"Deutsche Allgemeine Zeit - Abend Aus Berlin" dated 15 March 1931 on "Ein "Nansen-Fonds" zur bie Fluchlings in Europa und asien?"
"The Way of the World - No. 110" - dated 15 May 1931
"Jewish Telegraphic Agency" dated 11 May 1931 on "Nansen Memorial Fund: Appeal issued by League of Nations Council for Completion of Dr. Nansen's Humanitarian Work"
Various newspaper cuttings from Budapest

C1444/340/Rr.409/76/2 · File · 1929-1930
Part of League of Nations Refugees Mixed Archival Group (Nansen Fonds)

Correspondence and telegrams regarding the expulsion of three former members of the Russian army, Glasenapp, Djakow and Lebedeff; the Russian refugees' complaint against the Danzig authorities for their removal of the Russian eagle from a stone and their mutilation of the epitaph on said stone; the possible creation of a sub-delegation of the High Commissariat for Refugees in Danzig. On these subjects, the Polish and Baltic States delegate, Mr. E. Gallati, meets representatives of the Danzig senate during a mission to the Free City 8-10 Dec. 1919. He meets namely President Sahm and his assistant, Dr. Ferber, a report of the mission is addressed to the deputy High Commissioner, M. T.F. Johnson.

C1573/469/20B/21705/17126 · File · 1930-1932
Part of League of Nations Refugees Mixed Archival Group (Nansen Fonds)

This file contains requests for financial assistance for transport to France and reimbursement of the advances; also includes correspondence regarding the matter of securing the reimbursement of advances made to refugees and a memorandum received from the United Russian Relief, concerning the question of the Strałkowo [Strelkovsky] Camp.

C1575/471/20B/24551/17140 · File · 1930-1931
Part of League of Nations Refugees Mixed Archival Group (Nansen Fonds)

This file contains correspondence with General Baratoff, President of the Fédération des Invalides Mutilés de Guerre Russses à l'Etranger [Federation General of Russian War Disabled], several brochures and financial documents of the Federation, including the estimations of its budget for 1931.