OGPU CRUELTIES.
ATROCITIES ON LATVIANS.
(" Times " Cables.)
LONDON, August 3
Tho Riga, correspondent of the "Times" says Latvian newspapers declare that the Ogpu (Russian secret police) after atrociously torturing 14 Lettish colonists in tho province of Smolensk shot them on a charge of harbouring a priest and attending a service in contravention of the rules restricting the movements and activities of ministers of religion.
Notwithstanding appeals from the relatives of the victims to bo allowed to bury their dead privately the bodies were thrown into a common'grave. The property and even the clothing of the 14 men were confiscated, leaving their families destitute.
,The Ogpu also sent 130 Lettish colonists who had attended services to the notorious Solovetsky prison camp, where the conditions are described as "a living hell."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 182, 4 August 1930, Page 7
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