RUSSIAN BARBARITY.
TWO THOUSAND EXECUTIONS. LONDON, Nov. 22. • There is now being published throughout . Europe a protest against the illtreatment of political prisoners m Russia. It is pointed out that since the Czar's manifesto of 1905, promising liberty to his subjects, over 40,000 have been sentenced 'for political offences, XOOO executed, and 1000 thrown into the country's horribly hard labor prisons - to suffer the barbarous treatment meted out to political offenders. The gaols iaj-e orercrowd/ed, and tiheir ifomiatjes become the victims of all sorts of epidemics of disease. Among those by whom the protest has been signed are Lord Lytton, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mr H. G. Wells, Mr J. Ramsay Macdonald, M.P., Mr Maurice Hewlett, Mr Jerome K. Jerome, Sir Victor Horsley (Emeritus Professor of Clinical Surgery at University College Hospital), and Mr George Gilbert Murray (Professor ' of .. Gi'eek, Oxford University).
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XL, Issue 13251, 9 December 1913, Page 9
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