SIBERIA IS HOME
OFMANYTRIBES
OF MONGOLIANS
OMSK, Siberia, March 12 (Corres
pondence of the Associated Pres).—
Siberia, which has forced world at
tention, by reason of the important
political events there, Include all the
Asiatic possessions of Russia with the
exception of the trans-Caspian and
tran-Caucasian regions and the gov
ernment of Turkestan whose capital,
Tashkent, was captured by the Bol
sheviki and whose American vice-con
sul, Roger C. Tredwell, was arrested
and left to languish in prison.
Since the Mongolian invasions in
the thirteenth century, Siberia has
been the home of many tribes, des
cended from that race. To the for
eigner the Tartars are perhaps the
most interesting. Their great center
is Kazan though the National Tartar
Council, which like Ukraine and other
regions of Russia, seeks the develop
ments of its “national aspirations,” is
now located at Petropavlovsk, not far
from Omsk. This is on account of Bol
shevik terrorism.
The Tartars are true followers of
Mahomet and their mosques are found
in almost every city. They are esti
mated to number 1,600,000 in the dis
tricts of Kazan and Crimea. They are
keen seekers after education and
many Tartar boys and girls receive
lessons in French, English and Ger
man from foreign instructors in
places like Kazan, Samara and Ufa.
The last two of these places were oc
cupied several months ago by the Bol
shevik armies. The Tartars have an
oval face, black eyes, placed obliquely,
and their skin is brown. Their cos
tume is unusual,the distinguishing fea
ture being their coiffure over which is
worn a tight fitting calotte, or skull
cun.
A considerable number of Tartars
live in the Altai mountains on the
frontier of China. They are still no
mads and given over to idolatry.
Many of them worship the sun.
The people of the Mongolian race
inhabiting Russia, either European or
Siberian, should be generally divided
into groups. The Finnish group in
clude Finns, Esthonlans, Mordva and
f Cheremises. The Tartar group is com
posed of Tartars, and smaller tribal
peoples.
An important nomadic Mongolian
tribe is the Kirghis who live in the
steppe regions of Akmolinsk and
Semipalatinsk. They aggregate more
than a million of both sexes, speak a
Turkish dialect and are devout mus
sulmans. They are chiefly cattle
raisers.
The lakouts inhabit the region of
Irkutsk,' near Cake Baikal, and speak
a language principally Turkish but
partly Mongolian. They are idolatrous
and live by the hunt and by the rais
ing of cattle.
In the province of Tobolsk, and gen
eraly in the north, even up to the
Arctic ocean, are found the Voguls
and the Ostiacks. They descend from
ancient Finnish branch. Although In
principal converted to Christianity,
they have no real idea of the Chris
tian religion and, as in ancient times,
practice Chamanism, the religion of
their ancestors. Still other tribes are
the Teleouts on the plateaus, of the
Altais, the Buriats in the traps-Balkal
district, the Manchus in the Amur,
and the Samoyedes on the Arctic bor
ders where they engage in the raising
of reindeer.
In the large cities lilyy Harbin,
Irkutsk and Omsk, Americans are
struck by the large number of Buriats
and Tartars who are drivers of public
droskies. They seem to speak the
Russian language indifferntly and ap
parently hardly know the streets and
different quarters of the city. They
are distinctly Mongolian in type and
have flat noses.
The present population of Siberia
is estimated at ten million, as against
a total Russian population of perhaps
180,000,000. Despite the numerous
races and tribes mentioned above, the
population of Siberia is mainly Rus
sian, formed of peasants who mi
grated from European Russia when
Siberia was reconquered and to some
extent of the descendants of the un
happy people who were exiled to the
frigid zone for political conspiracies
and crimes.
NAKED CHILDREN AND
WOMEN THROWN INTO
PITS TO DIE MISERABLY
OMSK, Siberia, April 2 (Correpond
ence of the Associated Press).—A
Russian volunteer soldier who took
part in the battle of Perm gives the
following narrative of what he saw
in the village of Kouvchine, not far
from Perm, where he was stationed
during the fighting which resulted in
the complete defeat of the Bolsheviki.
He was ordered to clean out three
cesspools which were filled with the
corpses of people who apparently be
longed to the intellectual or cultivated
class of the community. Many of the
bodies bore wounds made with
swords. He removed thirty corpses
from the first pit, the ages of the vic
tims ranging frotn 16 to 60 years.
There were several women among
'the victims. All the bodies were
naked. There was reason to believe,
in the soldier’s opinion, that many of
the people were thrown into the pits
still alive and they died by slow suffo
cation and from the effects of their
wounds.
The inhabitants of the village were
so terrified that they acted like insane
persons. When the Siberians came as
victors and the town bells rang out,
the people jumped for joy clasping
hands and skipping around in circles.
In the neighboring village of Gor
noavadsk, situated on a railroad, the
people were found to be absolutely
without nourishment, and the condi
tion of the children was pitiable to
witness.
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‘THE ROAD TO LOVE"
AT EMPRESS TONIGHT
The romance and lore of the Orient,
with its mystery and fascination are
irresistibly woven into “The Road to
Love," the Oliver Morosco photoplay
In which Lenore Ulrich, the popular
stege and screen star, appears in the
role of Hafsa, the daughter of an Ara
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Her love is reciprocated, but her
sweetheart is captured by her own
father and sent away to be sold as a
slave. The unfolding of the story di*1
plays many dramatic situations, in
which Miss Ulrich is called upon to
put forth her best histrionic efforts.
Very artistic effects have been secur
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story, notably a beautiful sunset des
ert scene, which is the background for
one of the most stirring incidents in
this unusual Paramount picture at the
Empress theatre tonight. Also Hearst
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