RUSSIA

Evening Star, Issue 16853, 1 October 1918, Page 4

RUSSIA

HOSTAGES' SUFFERINGS. Proa Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cab!© Association. NEW YORK, September 29. _ It is reported, that 1,700 persons, mostly former Russian a,rmy officers, are being held hostages for tiho lives of Bolshevist officials. About 1,946 Englishmen are imprisoned in the fortress* of Peter and Paul on the pretence that they were implicated in a plot to kill Uritsky. There are also 20 French, citizens in the iamo prison. The conditions in the farta-ess could not bo worse. The prisoners are crowded' in> groups of 15 to 20 iiiii small; damp cells, m which only two or three are able to> lie down at the same time. They are not permatted exercise, have no bedding, and § tactically no food. Forty-four O/echolovaks who had been captured were found imprisoned, starving to death. Twentynino -ire still imprisoned' artel 15 have been removed to a hospital dying. POPE BEFRIENDS ARISTOCRATS. ROME, September 29. The Vatican announces that, as a result of the Pope's intervention, the Russian Government have decided to remove all the Grand Dukes to the Crimea for safety. ROBBER'S DARING- COUP IN CaPOBCFL y*-"*!."'.'' l ' Eeuter'a Telegrams. AMSTERDAM, September 29. Advices from Moscow state that during service a robber snatched- the world-famed image of Our Lady of Kazan, which is covered with jeweb of fabrflous value, fi'om the priest, whom ho shot with a revolver and severely wounded. The robber escaped with Iris booty. [We invito onr readers' attention to an informative article—the first of two from the pen of -Canon Nevill—which deals with the actual state of affairs in Russia. It will be found on page 6»]