This is a story that should be known by all Americans. My grandmother lived in Vladivostok and she worked for the American Red Cross, and traveled with them through Siberia with the "Great White Train". One of the commissioners for the A.R.C., Riley Allen, heard of the children and their plight and brought them to Vladivostok under great danger. In civilian life, Riley Allen was the editor of the Honolulu Sun Bulletin. He was asked by Woodrow Wilson to head the Red Cross officials to Vladivostok.
Their ship, under Japanese registry, went to Hawaii, and then sailed to San Francisco. The children were then transported to New York where they set sail for Helsinki, Finland. The children then were taken from there to Petrograd and returned to parts of Russia (by then the Soviet Union) with many returned to their families.
I have a postcard from Riley Allen to my grandmother which was posted from Helsinki. When my grandmother arrived in the U.S. she stayed in Seattle with Riley Allen's mother. I still have my grandmother's Red Cross and ARC pins. She never spoke to me about her experiences, but my mother told me much later after she had died.