BOLSHEVIK TERROR
; SHOCKING TREATMENT OF PRISONERS ' (AUSTRAMAtfIteW. ZEALAND CABIE ASSOCIATION.) • . • ' NEW YORK, 29th September; : It is reported that 170 persons, mostly former army officers, are being held as hostages for the lives of Bolshevik officials. About 1946 Englishmen are imprisoned in the fortress of Peter and Paul on the pretence that they are implicated in the plot, for the killing of,. •UlriUsky.. 'There:, api also. : twenty' French citizens -in..-<the kame prison. Their conditions could. not be woree. S&^life9aLr6^auSS^iftlMo_jMubsJ
of fronj fifteen to twenty, in small damp cells, only two or three being able 1 to lie down, at the same time. They are not permitted to exercise, they have no bedding, and practically no food. Fortytwo Czecho-Slovaks who had been captured, were found imprisoned and starvy irig ■to death. -: Twenty-nine are still imprisoned. Fifteen were removed to. the hospital dying.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 80, 1 October 1918, Page 7
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140BOLSHEVIK TERROR Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 80, 1 October 1918, Page 7
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