MOSCOW PROTESTS

Evening Star, Issue 25472, 1 May 1945, Page 6

MOSCOW PROTESTS

LIBERATED RUSSIANS DETAINED IN ALLIED CAMPS (Rec, 8 a.m.) LONDON, April 30. Moscow radio broadcast a protest against the conditions under which liberated Russian prisoners are kept in British and American camps before repatriation. The radio, quoting an interview with the Russian Commissioner for the Repatriation of War Prisoners, General Golikov, says only 35,000 ol 150,000 Russian citizens liberated by the Allies in the exclusive of an unascertained number freed in Western Germany, have come home. " Many thousands of our people are in British and American camps in France, Italy, Britain, and America," said General . Golikov. ■-" Liberated Russians are not everywhere treated as citizens of an Allied Power. Russian representatives in many cases have not been informed of the presence of Russian citizens, in infringement of the agreement made on February 11, 1945. Russian representatives recently discovered in England three camps housing 712 Russians, no information of whom had been supplied to Russia. The camps were under the control of American police, and the Russians Were detained . under impossible conditions. They were in Camp No. 1, and kept with Germans under German administration. They were in Camps 35 and 40, fenced in with barbed-wire, with machine guns at intervals. The men were poorly clothed, and laboured on earthworks between 10 and 12 hours a day.