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C1559/455/20B/16809/16809/Jacket6 · File · 1933-1934
Part of League of Nations Refugees Mixed Archival Group (Nansen Fonds)

The file content is related to the Transport of different religious groups originated from Russia and Germany from China to South America; financial arrangement for the transport and settlement costs; mission report of Messrs Ehrenhold and Zwerner on the transfer of Mennonites refugees from Marseille to Bordeaux for evacuation from China to Brazil.
Also these following Press clippings are at disposal in the file :
Les dernières nouvelles - 9 April 1934 - Colons hitlériens
La Renaissance - 12 May 1934 - Les réfugiée Mennonites
La petite gironde - 13 May 1934 - A bord de l'"Eubée" - La Croix-Rouge française reçoit 292 réfugiés russes
Marseille Matin - 12 May 1934 - Trois cents mennonites émigrés de Russie ont traversé hier Marseille se rendent au Brésil
Paris soir - 15 May 1934 - Cinq cents émigrants russes venant de Shanghai et partant s'établir au Brésil sont arrivés à Marseille
Paris soir - 5 October 1934 - Dans la jungle infernale du Gran Chaco - Oú l'on rencontre les pioniers memnonites hôtes pacifiques de la brousse - Les russes les canadiens, les allemands "objecteurs de conscience" vivent à deux cents kilomètres de la ligne de feu

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to take charge - Conference at Moscow on 25 January - All Prisoners to be released, Consulates reopened and Forces withdrawn on both sides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
C1442/338/Rr.409/35/1 · File · 1922-1924
Part of League of Nations Refugees Mixed Archival Group (Nansen Fonds)

This file contains correspondence between the Japan Embassy in Paris (Bureau du Japon à la Société des Nations) and the Secretary-General, Sir Eric Drummond, regarding Japan's adhesion to the Council's resolution on the legal situation and passport issue (13 June 1922), its adhesion to the identity certificates system (25 June 1923) and its enforcement on 1 Feb. 1924 of this system. M. Matsuda is the Head of the Japanese League of Nations Office.

C1443/339/Rr.409/66/1/Jacket1 · File · 1922-1923
Part of League of Nations Refugees Mixed Archival Group (Nansen Fonds)

It contains file 45/20336/15833/Jackets 1&2, correspondence on the subject of the Russian refugees in Constantinople and the issuing of identity certificates to them. It is exchanged between the Deputy Assistant Commissioner for refugees, S. Lawford Childs, French and British authorities (Allied High Commissioners) and Turkish authorities as well as with the High Commissioner in Geneva and the Secretary-General.

C1443/339/Rr.409/66/1/Jacket2 · File · 1924-1929
Part of League of Nations Refugees Mixed Archival Group (Nansen Fonds)

This file documents the decision of the Turkish government to issue special passports that are in agreement with the identity certificates system adopted by the Inter-governmental conference held at Geneva, July 3rd-5th, 1922, as per circular letter of 29 Jan. 1924. Collective passports are issued by the HCR for group evacuations. It contains correspondence, memoranda and notes, exchanges between the Legal section (Dr. van Hamel) and Major T.F. Johnson of the Refugee Service, between Consuls and the Secretary-General, the delegate S. Lawford Childs and other delegations of the HCR. The question of the status of Armenian and Georgian refugees is raised as well as of new Turkish laws making the collective passport procedure much more lengthy and expensive.