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Soviet Devil's Island Made New Republic. RAVAGES OF DISEASE. LONDON, June 17. The "Warsaw correspondent of the "Daily Express" says the Soviet's dreaded place of deportation, Solovski Island, in the White Sea, has become a sinister "republic of the condemned." The Soviet found that typhus and scurvy were killing off 50 per cent of the men in the many garrison posts on the island as well as a similar proportion of convicts: Troops consequently were reluctant to go there and some mutinied. The Soviet Government, therefore, solved the problem by creating Solovski a 'republic. Short-term Communist convicts are now guarding their brother convicts. It is alleged that the new guards practise very severe discipline undei promise of remission of sentences. Manj titled Czarist Russians are> among the republic's hapless people.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 142, 18 June 1930, Page 7
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