CHEKA BRUTALITY
Mennonites Treated Worse
Than Animals.
BOUND TO PREVENT SUICIDE. (Received 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, December 2. The "Daily Mail's" correspondent at Riga tells amazing stories of Cheka brutality. He related how 235 Mennonites arrived at Riga accompanied by ICS children. Thousands had been arrested at midnight and forced into unheated and padlocked freight wagons, and are at present slowly proceeding to an unknown destination. In the Omsk district, where the temperature is 30 degrees below zero, the Chekists are obliged to manacle men and bind women with ropes to prevent them from throwing themselves under the wheels of motor wagons. Scores lost their reason when arrested. The refugees, with tears streaming down their cheeks, pleaded with the German Minister at Latvia, who met them at Riga station, to save his coreligionists, of whom about 0000 remain in Moscow.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 286, 3 December 1929, Page 7
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