IN A SOVIET DUNGEON
BRITISH OFFICER'S ORDEAL LATEST BOLSHEVIST OUTRAGE. LONDON, August 17. Mr Sutcr, chief officer of the Glen i liner i.'arnarvoiiihire, lists been libcri a led after ten days’ imprisonment in a | Bolshevist dungeon at When his steamer was approaching j Hie port a Chinese seaman was caught i pilfering in the forecastle. He was ’ handcuffed to iho rail ami handed i over to a Bolshevist policeman, i Preferring to believe the Chinaman, tho policeman, suddenly turned and arrested Air Suter, who was imprisoned in a windowless cell, being rationed on black bread and soup, alter a mock trial on the charge of having deprived the Chinaman of liberty by a , painful method of endangering his life and health. Only tho most urgent diplomatic intervention secured Air Suter’s release.
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Evening Star, Issue 19032, 29 August 1925, Page 9
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131IN A SOVIET DUNGEON Evening Star, Issue 19032, 29 August 1925, Page 9
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